EDITORIAL
Finance for housing, livelihoods and basic services
Diana Mitlin

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The role of housing finance in addressing the needs of the urban poor: lessons from Central America
Alfredo Stein and Irene Vance

The IVDP – credit to the women of Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri
Sarah Stavrakakis with Ruth McLeod and Kulandei Francis

Financial exclusion in Latin America – or the social costs of not banking the urban poor
Tova María Solo

Free basic water – a sustainable instrument for a sustainable future in South Africa
Mike Muller

Incremental construction: a strategy to facilitate access to housing
Margarita Greene and Eduardo Rojas

Financing the sanitation programme of the Orangi Pilot Project–Research and Training Institute in Pakistan
Arif Hasan

Mobilizing projects in community organizations with a long-term perspective: neighbourhood credit funds in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Florencia Almansi and Andrea Tammarazio

Microfinance for community development, poverty alleviation and natural resource management in peri-urban Hubli–Dharwad, India

Robert M Brook, Karen J Hillyer and G Bhuvaneshwari

CITIES, RISK, DISASTERS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate, climate change and human health in Asian cities
Sari Kovats and Rais Akhtar

Winners and losers from the 2001 Gujarat earthquake
David Sanderson and Anshu Sharma

Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the urban poor in Africa
Ian Douglas, Kurshid Alam, MaryAnne Maghenda, Yasmin McDonnell, Louise McLean and Jack Campbell

Climate change risk: an adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities
Aromar Revi

Climate change and coastal cities: the case of Mombasa, Kenya
Cynthia Brenda Awuor, Victor Ayo Orindi and Andrew Ochieng Adwera

FEEDBACK

Plans for Dharavi: negotiating a reconciliation between a state-driven market redevelopment and residents’ aspirations
Sheela Patel and Jockin Arputham

Cash transfers to tackle childhood poverty and vulnerability: an analysis of Peru’s Juntos programme
Nicola Jones, Rosana Vargas and Eliana Villar

BOOK REVIEWS

Cities of the Future: Towards Integrated Sustainable Water and Landscape Management by Vladimir Novotny and Paul Brown (editors)

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BOOK NOTES

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BULLETIN BOARD

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SUMMARIES

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Cover photo: Construction workers, New Barrio Hardoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
© Mark Edwards / Still Pictures

Next issue: Building good governance in cities, including the role of civil society and social movements

The following papers will be among those published in the October 2008 issue:

Living on the edge: financing post-displacement housing in urban redevelopment projects in Seoul
Hyun Bang Shin

Social movements and co-production
Diana Mitlin

Financing social infrastructure and addressing poverty through Wakf endowments: experience from Kenya and Tanzania
Saad Yahya

Houses without community: Problems of community (in)capacity in Cape Town, South Africa
Charlotte Lemanski

Developing new approaches for people-centred development
Jockin Arputham

Thinking globally, acting locally – institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa
Debra Roberts

Towards action on social determinants for health equity in urban settings
Tord Kjellstrom and Susan Mercado

Climate change and urban children: implications for adaptation in low- and middle-income countries
Sheridan Bartlett

International assistance for cities in developing countries; do we still need it?
Richard Stren