Book Notes

Book Notes give short descriptions of recently published books, papers and reports on all subjects relevant to the environment and development. Priority is given to items produced by research groups and NGOs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This section also includes short descriptions of newsletters and journals. Send us a copy of any publication you would like included; we produce Book Notes of publications in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese.

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Key Concepts in Urban Studies (Second Edition)

Mark Gottdiener, Leslie Budd and Panu Lehtovuori, 2016, 165 pages. Published by SAGE Publications, ISBN: 9781849201995.

Water and Cities in Latin America: Challenges for Sustainable Development

Edited by Ismael Aguilar-Barajas, Jürgen Mahlknecht, Jonathan Kaledin, Marianne Kjellén and Abel Mejía-Betancourt (editors), 2015, 298 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9780415730976.

The Pedestrian and the City

Carmen Hass-Klau, 2015, 316 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9780415814409.

French Urbanism in Foreign Lands

Ambe J Njoh, 2016, 211 pages. Published by Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 9783319252988.

The New War on the Poor: The Production of Insecurity in Latin America

John Gledhill, 2015, 240 pages. Published by Zed Books, ISBN: 9781783603022.

Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique/Planeamento Participativo para o Desenvolvimento compatível com o Clima em Maputo, Moçambique

Vanesa Castán Broto, Jonathan Ensor, Emily Boyd, Charlotte Allen, Carlos Seventine and Domingos Augusto Macucule, 2015, 212 pages. Published by UCL Press, ISBN: 9781910634219.

Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development

Jeff Waage and Christopher Yap (editors), 2015, 110 pages. Published by Ubiquity Press, ISBN: 9781909188426.

The Mutual Housing Experiment: New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class

Kristin M Szylvian, 2015, 276 pages. Published by Temple University Press, ISBN: 9781439912058.

Building the Urban Environment: Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe and Latin America

Harold L Platt, 2015, 302 pages. Published by Temple University Press, ISBN: 9781439912379.

The End of Automobile Dependence: How Cities Are Moving Beyond Car-Based Planning

Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy, 2015, 320 pages. Published by Island Press, ISBN: 9781610916134.

World Migration Report 2015 – Migrants and Cities: New Partnerships to Manage Mobility

International Organization for Migration, 2015, 227 pages. ISBN: 9789290687092.

Retrofitting Sprawl: Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form

Emily Talen (editor), 2015, 263 pages. Published by University of Georgia Press, ISBN: 9780820345451.

Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility

Emma Jackson, 2015, 157 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9780415722162.

Popular participation in the city: 20 years of decentralisation in Cochabamba’s barrios

María Eugenia Torrico and Anna Walnycki, 2016, 32 pages. Human Settlements working paper,

International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784312923.

Geographies of Urban Governance: Advanced Theories, Methods and Practices

Joyeeta Gupta, Karin Pfeffer, Hebe Verrest and Mirjam Ros-Tonen (editors), 2015, 235 pages. Published by Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 9783319212722.

Cities and the Urban Land Premium

Henri L F de Groot, Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings and Wouter Vermeulen, 2015, 135 pages. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN: 9781784717438.

Financing sanitation for low-income urban communities: Lessons from CCODE and the Federation in Malawi

Wonderful Hunga, 2016, 36 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784312909.

Environmental Justice and Activism in Indianapolis

Trevor K Fuller, 2015, 143 pages. Published by Lexington Books, ISBN: 9780739188392.

Nourishing livelihoods: recognising and supporting food vendors in Nairobi’s informal settlements

Grace Githiri, Regina Ngugi, Patrick Njoroge and Alice Sverdlik, 2016, 48 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784312763.

Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

Paola Pucci and Matteo Colleoni (editors), 2016, 276 pages. Published by Springer International Publishing and Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, ISBN: 9783319225784.

Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City

Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matthew Gordon Lasner (editors), 2016, 352 pages. Published by Princeton University Press, ISBN: 9780691167817.

Towards a network of micro-credits for housing improvements in barrios in Argentina

Guadalupe Sierra, Maria Laura Potroel and Gustavo Pandiella, 2016, 40 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784312749.

Informal food systems and food security in rural and urban East Africa

Cecilia Tacoli, 2016, 4 pages. IIED briefing, International Institute for Environment and Development.

Urbanisation, changing tastes and rural transformation in West Africa

Frédéric Lançon and Idrissa Wade, 2016, 4 pages. IIED briefing, International Institute for Environment and Development.

The City in Urban Poverty

Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx (editors), 2015, 239 pages. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781137367426.

Inclusive Urbanisation Workshop Reflections

Gordon McGranahan and Daniel Schensul, 2016, 10 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development.

Paratransit in African Cities: Operations, Regulation and Reform

Roger Behrens, Dorothy McCormick and David Mfinanga (editors), 2016, 311 pages. Published by Earthscan, ISBN: 9780415870337.

Building resilient and safe communities against poverty and disaster

Patrick I Patino, 2016, 47 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 29, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784312954.

Decentralisation in West Africa: the implications for urban climate change governance

Loan Diep, Diane Archer and Cheikh Gueye, 2016, 60 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784312930.

Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City

Annette Miae Kim, 2015, 264 pages. Published by University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226119366.

2010 Population & Housing Census: National Analytical Report

Ghana Statistical Service, 2013, 430 pages.

Cities, Diversity and Ethnicity: Politics, governance and participation

Martin Bulmer and John Solomos (editors), 2016, 198 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138924871.

Untamed Urbanisms

Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis and Mark Swilling (editors), 2016, 337 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781315746692.

Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty

Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Marianne Fay, Tamaro Kane, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg, David Treguer and Adrien Vogt-Schilb, 2016, 209 pages. Published by the World Bank, ISBN: 9781464806742.

Why Women Will Save the Planet

Friends of the Earth, 2015, 279 pages. Published by Zed Books, ISBN: 9781783605798.

Urban Change in Iran: Stories of Rooted Histories and Ever-accelerating Developments

Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian and Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini (editors), 2016, 260 pages. Published by Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 9783319261157.

State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable?

Worldwatch Institute, 2016, 448 pages. Published by Island Press, ISBN: 9781610917568.

Why is water still unaffordable for sub-Saharan Africa’s urban poor?

Diana Mitlin and Anna Walnycki, 2016, 4 pages. IIED briefing, International Institute for Environment and Development.

Making It: Industry for Development – Cities that work

Charles Arthur (editor), 2015, 48 pages. Published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Issue 18, 1st quarter 2015. ISSN: 20768508.

La cultura en la superación de la pobreza [Culture in overcoming poverty]

Alberto Abello Vives and Dina Candela, 2015, 39 pages. Medio Ambiente y Urbanización Vol 83, No 2, pages 9–47.

An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance

Ken Conca, 2015, 320 pages. Published by Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780190232863.

Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space

Shirley Jordan and Christoph Lindner (editors), 2016, 256 pages. Published by Bloomsbury, ISBN: 9781474224437.

Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design, and Implementation

Danielle Sinnett, Nick Smith and Sarah Burgess (editors), 2015, 474 pages. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN: 9781783473991.

Making cash work for cities and towns affected by humanitarian crises

Gabrielle Smith, Lili Mohiddin and Diane Archer, 2016, 4 pages. IIED briefing, International Institute for Environment and Development.

DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services

Kimberley Kinder, 2016, 248 pages. Published by University of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 9780816697090.

GrEEEn Solutions for Livable Cities

Sonia Chand Sandhu, Ramola Naik Singru, John Bachmann, Vaideeswaran Sankaran and Pierre Arnoux, 2016, 260 pages. Published by the Asian Development Bank, ISBN: 9789292573515.

International NGO Engagement, Advocacy, Activism: The Faces and Spaces of Change

Helen Yanacopulos, 2015, 182 pages. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781349563838.

Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability: Floods and slum life in Indonesia

Roanne van Voorst, 2016, 162 pages. Published by Earthscan, ISBN: 9781138860537.

Managing the City Economy: Challenges and Strategies in Developing Countries

Le-Yin Zhang, 2015, 290 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9780415661768.

Why Urban India Floods: Indian cities grow at the cost of their wetlands

Sushmita Sengupta, 2016, 287 pages. Published by the Centre for Science and Environment, ISBN: 9788186906897.

Conservation for Cities

Robert I McDonald, 2015, 268 pages. Published by Island Press, ISBN: 9781610915229.

Urban migration and social exclusion: study from Indore slums and informal settlements

Siddharth Agarwal, 2016, 56 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313395.

Climate change and urban health vulnerability

Buapun Promphakping, Yanyong Inmuong, Weerayuth Photaworn, Monchai Phongsiri and Kritsada Phatchanay, 2016, 31 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 31, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, ISBN: 9781784313142.

Concrete Jungles: Urban Pollution and the Politics of Difference in the Caribbean

Rivke Jaffe, 2016, 208 pages. Published by Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780190273590.

Sustainable Water: Challenges and Solutions from California

Allison Lassiter (editor), 2016, 389 pages. Published by University of California Press, ISBN: 9780520285354.

Exploring Karachi’s transport system problems: A diversity of stakeholder perspectives

Mansoor Raza, 2016, 51 pages. Human Settlements working paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784313135.

Urbanising Thailand - A closer look; implications for climate vulnerability assessment

Richard Friend, Chanisada Choosuk, Khanin Hutanuwatr,Yanyong Inmuong, Jawanit Kittitornkool, Bart Lambregts,Buapun Promphakping, Thongchai Roachanakanan, Poon Thiengburanathum, Pakamas Thinphanga and Santiparp Siriwattanaphaiboon, 2016, 55 pages. Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 30, International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN 9781784312947.