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.

To allow our readers to get news of new publications more quickly, we now post Book Notes on the web at http://www.environmentandurbanization.org/book-notes. These are open access, so you do not need a subscription to access them. The publications for which Book Notes have been posted since the April 2020 issue of Environment and Urbanization are listed below.

Proposed solutions for inclusive shelter in Hawassa

Emma Grant, Gemechu Desta, Yeraswork Admassie, Faraz Hassan, Sophie Stevens and Meheret Ayenew, 2019, 4 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784317324.

International Migrants in China’s Global City: The New Shanghailanders

James Farrer, 2019, 216 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9780815382638.

Urban refugees in Nairobi: tackling barriers to accessing housing, services and infrastructure

Kanyiva Muindi and Blessing Mberu, 2019, 36 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784317539.

Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

Steven Higashide, 2019, 184 pages. Published by Island Press, ISBN: 9781642830149.

Towards more inclusive urban health systems for refugee wellbeing: Lessons from Kampala, Uganda

Anna Walnycki, Lucy Earle and William Monteith, 2019, 22 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784317522.

Feminist City: A Field Guide

Leslie Kern, 2019, 192 pages. Published by Between the Lines, ISBN: 9781771134576.

Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration

Mirjana Lozanovska, 2019, 242 pages. Published by Routledge, ISBN: 9781138574090.

Social Housing in the Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity

Mohammad Gharipour and Kivanç Kilinç (editors), 2019, 330 pages. Published by Indiana University Press, ISBN: 9780253039842.

Learning from community planning following the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Darren Gill, Laura Smits and Maggie Stephenson, 2020, 126 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784315177.

Narrowing the data gap to the achieve the New Urban Agenda

Alexandra Norodom and André Confiado, 2020, 4 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784317690.

Urban Claims and the Right to the City: Grassroots Perspectives from Salvador da Bahia and London

Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho and Ilinca Diaconescu (editors), 2020, 200 pages. Published by UCL Press, ISBN: 9781787356382.

More inclusive cities in East Africa: working with politics and informality

Lucy Earle, 2020, 4 pages. Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development, ISBN: 9781784317782.

IJURR Spotlight on Language and the City

Rivke Jaffe (editor), 2019. Published by the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

From the ground up: It’s about time for local humanitarian action

Larissa Fast and Christina Bennett, 2020, 30 pages. Published by the Overseas Development Institute.