Cities of the World
01/05/2007 00:00
There is an amazing correlation between the urbanization process and the historical evolution of the central-regional-local relationships in China.
The history of China, an immense country, is often described as a succession of order and chaos, of multiple kingdoms in permanent war...
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03/03/2007 00:00
According to the recent Human Development Report[1] the world faces a water crisis rooted in inequality and flawed water management policies. More than 1 billion people are denied the right to clean water and 2.6 billion lack access to adequate sanitation.
Every year, according to the...
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01/03/2007 00:00
Slums are economically useful, a reflection of the urban social divide, and a bedrock of human resilience. They are not a market failure, but a market success…
Why Slums?
According to UN-HABITAT slums represent one third of...
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01/12/2005 00:00
The UMP was initiated in 1986 at Istanbul, 10 years after the first Habitat
conference, and a decade before Habitat II. Its launch marked an important step in the evolution of international thinking on urban development. In 1976, at Vancouver, the world discovered slums and squatter settlements,...
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01/06/2005 00:00
The concept of affirmative action was born in the 1960’s of the civil rights movement in the USA. Affirmative action policies have been implemented in many countries – particularly India, the United States and South Africa – to redress historical racial and sexual discrimination. In the United...
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01/12/2004 00:00
Planificacion urbana asequible para todos los paises, Habitat Debate, 2004.
Spanish version of "Making City Planning Affordable".
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01/12/2004 00:00
Conventional urban planning or master planning almost passed away in the mid 1980s, particularly
in developing countries. Many reasons explain this not so sudden “death”:
• In terms of process, urban plans were designed by bureaucrats and experts, generally ignoring political and social dynamics...
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01/09/2004 00:00
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are the Least Urbanized Countries (LUCs). UN-HABITAT’s State of the World’s Cities Report 2001 clearly established the strong and positive correlation between urbanisation and the level of economic and social development. The poorest countries are generally the...
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01/03/2004 00:00
Habitat Debate March 2004.pdf
This article was published on the occasion of the First Congress of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Paris, May 2004.
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01/04/2003 00:00
Some simple ideas on how to finance slum upgrading and meet the MDG 7 target 11. Article in Habitat Debate, April 2003
pdf (479,2 kB)
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