Understanding the twenty-first century urban transformation: a global south perspective / Elliott Sclar and Nicole Volavka-Close -- Evolving urban health risks: housing, water and sanitation, and climate change / Gordon McGranahan -- Urban health systems / Trudy Harpham -- Healthy urban governance and population health: participatory budgeting in Belo Horizonte, Brazil / David Vlahov and Waleska T. Caiaffa -- Addressing health vulnerabilities of the urban poor in the "new urban settings" of Asia / Susan Mercado,... [et al.] -- The need for shelter finance improvements / Diana Mitlin -- Innovations in shelter finance / Diana Mitlin -- Investing in urban water and sanitation systems / Sophie Trémolet, Rachel Cardone, and Catarina Fonseca -- Perceiving the social and economic consequences of natural disaster shocks, or, getting ready for climate change / John C. Mutter -- The urbanization of climate change: responding to a new global challenge / William Solecki, ... [et al

1. Urban ecology (Sociology)
2. Sustainable urban development
3. Urban health
4. Urban poor
5. City planning
6. Urbanization -- Environmental aspects