Websites
- C40 Cities group
- Cities Alliance
- Eldis: Urban poverty
- Global Development Research Center (GDRC): Urban governance
- Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
- Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI)
- Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI)
- Sustainable Cities Index (2016)
- UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
- UN-Habitat Safer Cities Programme
- UN-Habitat Issues Papers
- Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
- World Bank: Urban development
Journals
- Environment & Urbanization
- International Development Planning Review
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Urban Studies
Books
- Beall, J., Guha-Khasnobis, B. & Kanbur, R. (2010). Urbanization and development: Multidisciplinary perspectives. Helsinki: UNU WIDER.
- Devas, N., with Amis, P., Beall, J., Grant, U., Mitlin, D., Nunan, F. & Rakodi, C. (2004). Urban governance, voice and poverty in the developing world. London: Earthscan.
- Fox, S. & Goodfellow, T. (2016). Cities and development. 2nd ed. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Mitlin, D. & Satterthwaite, D. (2012). Urban poverty in the global south: Scale and nature. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Satterthwaite, D. & Mitlin, D. (2014) Reducing urban poverty in the global south. Abingdon: Routledge.