This edition covers the following topics:

• Buildings, Climate Change and Cities;
  
• Ecuador: Eco-Materials for Low Cost and Sustainable building;
  
• World Green Building Council;
  
• Builders Kick-Start...

Le profil national est la synthèse des conclusions d’un bureau d’études, d’entretiens avec les acteurs clés et d’informations communiquées par les autorités. Les différents participants aux consultations se sont entendus sur la nécessité de déli...

La structure urbaine de la plupart des centres urbains du Niger est caractérisée par l’existence de noyaux d’habitat anciens, auxquels se sont juxtaposés des lotissements successifs. La filière de l’auto-construction constitue le mode dominant d...

This issue of Urban World covers innovative cities. It examines why learning is the key to smarter urban development.

La présente brochure comprend deux séries de lignes directrices approuvées par le Conseil d’administration d’ONU-Habitat en 2007 et 2009. En les approuvant, les Etats membres des Nations Unies se sont engagés à promouvoir la décentralisation et ...

The Sustainable Cities Programme was first implemented in 1996 in Shenyang and Wuhan, in China. From this initial experience, the environmental Planning and Management methodology was integrated in urban management to address pressing environmenta...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Ushering a new era of urban Planning and Management
• Urban Environment Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Philippines: Strengthening institutional capacity to adapt to C...

Située à 440 km à l’est de Saint Louis et à 700 km de Dakar sur la rive gauche du fleuve Sénégal, la commune de Kanel n’a été créée qu’en 1997. L’habitat est concentré sur une superficie de 53 ha, soit 45% de la superficie totale urbanisée. Les ...

Située au centre-ouest du Sénégal dans la région du même nom, la commune de Kaolack se présente comme un carrefour des axes de communication et d’échanges entre populations d’horizons divers. Elle joue un rôle d’intermédiaire sur le plan commerc...

UN-HABITAT helps the urban poor by transforming cities into safer, healthier, greener places with better opportunities where everyone can live in dignity. UN-HABITAT works with organizations at every level, including all spheres of government, c...

La Estrategia de Apoyo a la Gestión Urbano Ambiental de Arequipa fue iniciada por la Municipalidad Provincial de Arequipa a principios del 2003 y finalizó su segunda fase en enero del 2007. Ha sido apoyada por PNUMA y UN-Habitat, organismos que ju...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Cities and Climate Change:The Road from Bali to Copenhagen
• Esmeraldas LA21:Planning for a Changing Climate
• UNEP Helps Bangkok Tackle Climate Change
• Climate-proofing Cape ...

This Working Paper critically assesses the potential role of local authorities in promoting biodiversity conservation in the Lake Victoria Cities within the existing global framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. It sets the broader c...

The 6th edition of the SUDP Newsletter details activities of the programme over the past few months, partcularly in urban services, urban management, and governance. Two special sections focus on UN-HABITAT’s role in complex emergencies and plan...

Now more than ever, local governments are at the forefront of responding to growing social, economic and environmental challenges. In response to this changing context, local elected officials need to be knowledgeable about an increasingly complex...

Now more than ever, local governments are at the forefront of responding to growing social, economic and environmental challenges. In response to this changing context, local elected officials need to be knowledgeable about an increasingly complex...

Now more than ever, local governments are at the forefront of responding to growing social, economic and environmental challenges. In response to this changing context, local elected officials need to be knowledgeable about an increasingly complex...

This Quick Guide examines how community organizations can be valuable and resoureful partners when it comes to finding viable solutions to their own housing roblems. It looks at how community organizations have developed in Asia, how they function...

This Quick Guide explores several practicable and replicable alternatives to evictions which are being tested, refined and scaled up by governments, community groups and support institutions in Asia. In almost all cases, poor communities are centr...

This edition covers the following topics:

• World Urban Forum 4: Harmonious Urbanization
• Improving cities through Localizing Agenda 21: Bayamo, Cuba
• World Cities Summit in Singapore
• UNEP works with Nairobi to impro...

Professor Yeh explores the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a Planning Support System for urban planning. Despite the growing popularity of participatory approaches ...

Celebrados ya los 15 años de nuestra Constitución de 1991, y sin dejar atrás las heridas y los efectos políticos del aleve ataque terrorista a las torres gemelas del World Trade Center de Nueva York, e inmersos en la interesante discusión que se v...

As humanity becomes predominantly urban, the major challenge for public health in the 21st century will be in cities. Patterns of future urban growth will affect the incidence and severity of health issues. The morphology of cities, their density,...

To better understand crime and public perceptions of safety in Tanzania, victimisation surveys w...

In March 2000, two studies were conducted into crime and violence in Dar es Salaam – a victim survey and a series of in-de...

The 5th edition of the Somalia Urban Development Programme (SUDP) Newsletter covers the main activities carried out by UN-HABITAT and its partners in the last months in Somalia. This issue focus on: (1) Lotteries of the allocation of the houses in...

This Local Crime Prevention Video illustrates a process based approach that builds on growing international consensus regarding the development of local crime prevention strategies.

Le programme Agendas 21 locaux est basé sur la compréhension du rapport entre le développement et l’environnement. Considérant que le développement urbain et économique affecte l’environnement et que la disponibilité et la qualité des ressources e...

It focuses on the latest achievements of the Somalia Urban Development Programme: completion of the Municipal Authority Building in Garowe, training of the new councillors in Puntland, and property registration and taxa...

It reviews one year of SUDP (also marked by the first session of the SUDP Steering Committee Meeting) highlighting benefits and constraints of a fast growing programme. Articles focus on the support given by UN-OCHA to ...

It gives background information about the programme, its components and activities.

It gives background information on the shelter projects implemented in Somalia by UN-HABITAT and funded by the Government of Japan.

This brochure illustrates how to develop a property database - with the help of GIS - to establish a property taxation system and increase the municipal revenues. UN-HABITAT is developing such system in Hargeisa, expecting a substantial empowermen...

• Triggering events, wake-up calls, urgent surgery;
• Building a guiding coalition; ...

It reviews one year of SUDP (also marked by the first session of the SUDP Steering Committee Meeting) highlighting benefits and constraints of a fast growing programme. Articles focus on the support given by UN-OCHA to ...

In this issue

New Directions:

• Making Learning Matter:
• Training Impact on Performance Expert Group Meeting for Participatory Budgeting for Sub-Saharan Africa

Although cities occupy just 2 per cent of the Earth’s surface, their inhabitants use 75 per cent of the planet’s natural resources. Cities draw on their surrounding ecosystems for goods and services, and their products and emissions can affect reg...

Vivimos en una gran transformación a nivel global; una mutación antropológica y por lo tanto cultural, basada en la incorporación masiva de las tecnologías informáticas, en la descentralización productiva y la creación de la empresa en red, así no...

Los señalamientos y la presentación del material de esta publicación no implican la expresión de opinión alguna por parte del Secretariado de las Naciones Unidas con respecto al estatus legal de ningún país, territorio, ciudad o área, ni de sus ha...

The most fundamental challenges of cities-big and small-are linked to their capacity to generate wealth and economic opportunities. The economic vibrancy and resilience of cities largely determine their ability to deal with a host of other develop...

The Local Economic Development (LED) series is a resource for local governments, businesses and civil society organizations to help them initiate and implement local economic development interventions through a strategic planning process. The seri...

The Local Economic Development (LED) series is a resource for local governments, businesses and civil society organizations to help them initiate and implement local economic development interventions through a strategic planning process. The seri...

This set of four reviews provides a broad overview of the national and local legal framework related to land, housing, inheritance and marital property rights in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Nicaragua. This includes a description of relevant poli...

• A secret well kept - How could 10,000 cities access it?
• SCP in Nigeria:Towards Participatory Urban Planning
• Capacity Building: Success and ...

Crime does not happen spontaneously. It grows out of an unequal and exclusive society, and outof a lack of institutional and social control. Moreover, the criminal justice system, including police, courts and sons, is poorly adapted t...

In our rapidly urbanizing world, children and young people often form a majority of urban populations, living in increasingly over-crowded and dangerous environments, without access to the basic human rights to which there is overwhelming agreemen...

The Habitat Agenda recognises that the struggle for sustainable development will be attained or flounder in towns and cities. Humanity has entered the 21st century, the urban millennium. And there is growing consensus that in order to reap the fru...

The United Nations Centre for Human Settlements has undergone a historic transition. The General Assembly, at its meeting in New York on 21 December 2001, decided to transform, with effect from 1 January 2002, the United Nations Centre for Human S...

Nine out of every 10 children in Nepal suffers some form of malnutrition. This programme unravels the complex causes and effects of Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) through the stories of people in Nepal who live with it on a daily basis.

P...

Over the last century hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have crossed the border to the US in pursuit of jobs and a better life. But in the new millennium,that journey to the other side has become increasingly dangerous and the costs are starting t...

Twenty five years ago, the World Health Organization’s Alma Ata conference promised to deliver basic health care for all the world’s population,under the clarion cry of ’Health for All’. Today, the promise remains unmet in too many countries and c...

Twenty five years ago, the World Health Organization’s Alma Ata conference promised to deliver basic health care for all the world’s population,under the clarion cry of ’Health for All’. Today, the promise remains unmet in too many countries and c...

This is a second of a two-part series exploring the lives of Palestinian refugees,this programme is set in Lebanon,where unoficially there are 250,00 Palestinian refugees. Barred from working,they also have limited access to medical care and highe...

The 1996 Habitat II Conference, dubbed “The City Summit,” drew the world’s attention to the massive demographic shift taking place.  In 1950, the number of people living in urban areas was 750 million. By 2015, it is estimated that some 4 billio...

Cities are our destiny. Visions of a non- or de-urbanizing world, while interesting
and important intellectual creations of the 20th century, are no longer credible.

Violent crime and delinquency threaten the quality of life of urban dwellers in Dar es Salaam. During the 1990’s the annual crime increase in Dar es Salaam was 8,1%. Not only does this
divert scarce resources from urban social development, bu...