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  • THE QUITO PAPERS AND THE NEW URBAN AGENDA
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    THE QUITO PAPERS AND THE NEW URBAN AGENDA
    UN-HABITAT
    The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they adopted the New Urban Agenda. However, the question of how these Agendas will be...

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  • PLANNING SUSTAINABLE CITIES
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    PLANNING SUSTAINABLE CITIES
    UN-HABITAT
    Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality. These planning systems have also, to a large extent, failed to meaning...

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  • PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY
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    PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY
    UN-HABITAT
    Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for cars, with a limited number of cities improving public transport systems in a su...

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  • STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2012/2013
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    STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2012/2013
    UN HABITAT
    The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a locus at which the prospects of prosperity and individual and collective well-being...

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  • FINANCING URBAN SHELTER
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    FINANCING URBAN SHELTER
    UN-HABITAT
    'Achieving the goals set by world leaders in the United Nations Millennium Declaration will be difficult without a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers, and the lives of slum dwellers cannot be improved without the sound and sustainable economic development that is conducive to the establishment of a strong shelter sector. As Financing Urban Shelter: Global Rep...

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  • WATER AND SANITATION IN THE WORLD'S CITIES
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    WATER AND SANITATION IN THE WORLD'S CITIES
    UN-HABITAT
    'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.' Peter Adamson, founder, New Internationalist, and author and researcher of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children from 1980 to 1995 The world's governments agreed at the Millennium Summit to halve, by 2015, the number of people who lack access to safe water. With rapi...

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  • ENHANCING URBAN SAFETY AND SECURITY
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    ENHANCING URBAN SAFETY AND SECURITY
    UN-HABITAT
    Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide trends with respect to each of these threats, paying particular attention to their underlying causes and impacts, as well as to the good policies and bes...

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  • CITIES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
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    CITIES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
    UN-HABITAT
    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanizatio...

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  • MEETING DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN SMALL URBAN CENTRES
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    MEETING DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN SMALL URBAN CENTRES
    UN-HABITAT
    Half of the world's people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities. Taking on the themes of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities (2003), this new volume focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of water and sanitation where most of the populations of the developing world live: in towns ...

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  • STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2008/9
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    STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2008/9
    UN-HABITAT
    Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. They are like a journey that never ends. Their evolution is determined by their ascent into greatness or their descent into decline. They are the past, the present and the future. Cities contain both order and chaos. In them reside beauty and ugliness, virtue and vice. They can bring ...

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  • SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE WORLD'S CITIES
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    SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE WORLD'S CITIES
    UN-HABITAT
    In our rapidly urbanizing global society, solid waste management will be a key challenge facing all the world's cities. Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities provides a fresh perspective and new data on one of the biggest issues in urban development. Using the framework of Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM), the report brings together unprecedented research f...

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  • STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2010/11
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    STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2010/11
    UN-HABITAT,
    The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructures? Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the framework of 'The Urban Divide' to analyse the complex social, political, econom...

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