Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the 21st century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequ...
Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book
Cities and Climate Change reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significant c...
Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
Cities and Climate Change reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significan...
Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 250, Type of publication: Book
Le présent rapport analyse les liens entre l'urbanisation et le changement climatique, les effets potentiellement dévastateurs du changement climatique sur les populations urbaines et les nouvelles pratiques et stratégies politiques adoptées dans les...
Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
Las Ciudades y el Cambio Climático examina los vínculos entre la urbanización y el cambio climático, los impactos potencialmente devastadores del cambio climático en las poblaciones urbanas y las respuestas y prácticas de políticas que están surgiend...
Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that tra...
Year: 2009,
Number of pages: 336, Type of publication: Book
This publication, which focuses on crime and violence, is the first of three volumes of the Abridged Edition of the Global Report 2007. The main purpose of this volume is to present, in summary form, the main findings of the Global Report 2007 on ...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 38, Type of publication: Book
This publication, which focuses on security of tenure and forced evictions, is the second of three volumes of the Abridged Edition of the Global Report 2007. The main purpose of this volume is to present, in summary form, the main findings of the ...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 33, Type of publication: Book
This publication, which focuses on natural and human-made disasters, is the third of three volumes of the Abridged Edition of the Global Report 2007. The main purpose of this volume is to present, in summary form, the main findings of the Global R...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 44, Type of publication: Book
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 ...
Year: 2007,
Number of pages: 448, Type of publication: Book
Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies. The report describes and analyzes housing fina...
Year: 2005,
Number of pages: 246, Type of publication: Book
The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors that underlie the formation of slums, as ...
Year: 2003,
Number of pages: 310, Type of publication: Book
Cities in a Globalizing World presents a comprehensive review of the world’s cities and analyses the positive and negative impacts on human settlements of global trends towards social and economic integration. The report highlights the im...
Year: 2001,
Number of pages: 344, Type of publication: Book
An Urbanizing World is a comprehensive review of conditions and trends in human settlements around the world and of the urbanization process through which more than half of the world?AAss population will soon live in urban areas. It shows ho...
Year: 1996,
Number of pages: 48, Type of publication: Book
