This is a synthesis of a set of case studies of eight cities, commissioned by ACHR as part of its program on "Understanding Asian Cities." The cities were: Beijing, Pune, Chiang Mai, Phnom Penh, Karachi, Muntinlupa, Hanoi and Surabaya. The synthesis was prepared by David Satterthwaite, at IIED in London, in 2005.

This article, by Somsook Boonyabancha, was published in the April 2005 issue of IIED's Environment & Urbanization Journal. The articles in this issue of the E&U Journal were devoted to "Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in urban areas." Besides managing ACHR, Somsook was the director of the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) at the time of writing this article.

This paper, written by Diana Mitlin at IIED in London, was published as IIED Working Paper No. 15 (under the Human Settlements Group's Poverty Reduction in Urban Areas series) in June 2004. The paper summarizes some the key issues that came up in an international workshop on housing finance and poverty that was held in Bangkok, in June 2004. The workshop was jointly organized by the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

This article about the development of the community-driven process in Cambodia, by ACHR, was published in the April 2004 issue of IIED's Environment & Urbanization Journal. The articles in this issue of the E&U Journal were devoted to "Partcipatory governance."

This article, by Sandra Yu and Anna Marie Karaos, was published in the April 2004 issue of IIED's Environment & Urbanization Journal. The articles in this issue of the E&U Journal were devoted to "Partcipatory governance."