Book notes
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Our Book Notes section has short descriptions of books, papers and reports that we have prepared on all subjects relevant to urban issues. These are summaries rather than reviews. These go into the Book Notes online database that contains all Book Notes since our 1993 editions. It has facilities for searching by author, title, key word, city or country.
As an experiment, we are opening this to our readers so it can draw on a wider pool of knowledge. So we invite you to send us short summaries of new publications you have read that you found interesting – and relevant to urban issues. Authors may submit summaries too, but not promotional material. We welcome your submission on relevant publications published within the last two years. This includes English-language Book Notes and English summaries of publications in Spanish, French or Portuguese. You will be listed as the author of the summary.
If you would like to submit a Book Note, please search the database on this page to ensure that the publication has not already been covered. Please specify the title, author, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and ISBN (if applicable). For the description, between one and six paragraphs is sufficient. Book Notes can be sent to Jenny.Peebles@iied.org
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THIS EDITED VOLUME offers an overview of approaches to land tenure in urban areas in 14 countries of the South. A number of more general chapters review the papers, consider the situation in transitional economies and look at issues of tenure, legality and illegality.
This paper highlights the importance for development of well-functioning local governments with the capacity to work with their low-income populations.
THIS BOOK SEEKS to highlight the limited results within India of the initiatives to find alternative employment for the scavengers (and their families) who clear away human excreta.
This book is the story of two innovative Pakistani institutions: the Orangi Pilot Project–Research and Training Institute and the Urban Resource Centre in Karachi.
THE ORANGI PILOT project is best known for its low-cost sanitation project which began in the Orangi district of Karachi nearly 20 years ago. This book documents and assesses the impact of the sanitation programme in Karachi and other cities across
Pakistan.
ALTHOUGH SANITATION MAY also refer to drainage, “sullage” and solid waste disposal, this review of sanitation technologies and approaches deals exclusively with systems for the treatment and disposal of excreta, and the author’s goal is to give evidence for and against particular sanitation metho
THE ORANGI PILOT Project is renowned throughout urban development institutions for their innovative sanitation programme, which has improved living conditions for about one million people in Karachi, Pakistan (a profile of their work was included in Environment&Urbanization Vol 7, No 2, 1995)
SINCE 1980, THE Pakistan NGO Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) has been working with the residents of Orangi township in Karachi to support upgrading, and it has evolved a highly regarded model for the provision of low-cost sanitation which has been replicated in a number of Karachi's informal settlemen
THE DISPOSAL OF human excreta is often presented as the most significant problem facing low-income urban settlements in the South.