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Booklet: Safer Cities Promotional Booklet  
View Details It is projected that by 2030, two-thirds of humanity will be living in towns and cities around the world. Another feature of the new urban age is that the global number of slum dwellers is now set to top the 1 billion mark. At this turning point in h...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Women’s equal rights to housing, land and property in international law.  
View Details Women’s equal rights to adequate housing, land and property are well elaborated under international human rights law but are often elusive in practice. This document is a reference guide to international human rights standards identifying both the su...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 57, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Business for Sustainable Urbanisation - Challenges and Opportunities  
View Details The UN has embarked on a broad and continuous programme of institutional change and reform towards becoming a more effective and accountable institution. One important part of this process has been the opening of the United Nations to non-state actor...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Rapid Urban Sector Profiling for Sustainability  
View Details The methodology for Rapid Urban Sector Profiling for Sustainability was developed by the Regional Office for Africa and the Arab States (ROAAS) and sister units within the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT), supported by a contrib...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Tan Tan: Profil environnemental  
View Details Le profil du secteur urbain de la ville de Tan Tan, initié par le Bureau régional pour l’Afrique et les Pays arabes (ROAAS) du Programme des Nations Unies pour les Etablissements Humains– UN-HABITAT, s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet « Profil du sect...
Year: 2007, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Victimisation in Tanzania: Surveys of Crime in Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara  
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To better understand crime and public perceptions of safety in Tanzania, victimisation surveys w...

Year: 2007, Number of pages: 96, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Crime in Dar es Salaam  
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In March 2000, two studies were conducted into crime and violence in Dar es Salaam – a victim survey and a series of in-de...

Year: 2007, Number of pages: 64, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Report: Urban Safety - Safety for all  
View Details The inspiration for the Johannesburg conference came in 1996 during the Vancouver conference on crime prevention for practitioners. It was realised that South Africa had an important role to play in the international crime prevention debate, both as ...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 83, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
SUDP-Newsletter – 5th Edition – May 2007  
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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...

Year: 2007, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Second newsletter on UN-HABITAT activities in Libya  
View Details This is the second newsletter on UN-HABITAT activities in Libya (www.unhabitat.org). This issue illustrates the progress on the 3rd Generation Planning Project (3GPP) and on the institutional strengthening of t...
Year: 2007, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban Environment Newsletter (September, 2007)  
View Details This edition features stories about: Cities and Biodiversity: No Longer Foes; Hailin City, China: Boundless forest on a snowy plateau; Lake Victoria Cities and Biodiversity; Curitiba - The City of People; Partners: Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB)...
Year: 2007, Periodicity: Biennial, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Problemas y políticas urbanas en América Latina: Certidumbres y falacias  
View Details En esta ponenc a trataré de hacer un balance de algunas de las nvest gac ones que hemos llevado a cabo en d st ntos momentos de nuestra trayector a académ ca, con el objeto de retomar c ertas conclus ones de las m smas en el contexto en que se d eron...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Safer Cities Toolkit  
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This Local Crime Prevention Video illustrates a process based approach that builds on growing international consensus regarding the development of local crime prevention strategies.

Year: 2007, Video format:, Type of publication: Video
Libya Urban Planning Newsletter, Issue No. 3  
View Details This is the third newsletter of UN-HABITAT activities in Libya. This issue describes the main findings of the international seminar on Sustainable Urbanization which took place in Tripoli on 30th June and 1st of July 2007 and World Habitat Day which ...
Year: 2007, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
The Wealth of cities: Towards an assets-based development of newly urbanizing regions  
View Details In this paper, John Friedmann critically examines the assumption that exports and external investments are the driving forces of growth in cities of developing countries. Instead, he proposes endogenous development, or a greater reliance on local ass...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 15, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
First newsletter on UN-HABITAT activities in Libya  
View Details This is the first newsletter of UN-HABITAT activities in Libya. The newsletter will be published twice a year and describes project activities and progress in the development of spatial plans. With this first issue we introduce current UN-HABITAT act...
Year: 2006, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Mainstreaming Gender Water and Sanitation  
View Details This strategy document emphasizes the benefits of entrusting the responsibility to groups of women and men of taking control of solving their water and sanitation problems at the local level, particularly slums which are highly deficient in water and...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 66, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Water for Cities, October-December 2006  
View Details UN-HABITAT and the Government of India organized the fi rst Asia-Pacific Ministers Conference on Housing and Human Settlements from 13-16 December, 2006 in New Delhi in which Housing Ministers, high level offi cials, professionals and members of the ...
Year: 2006, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Gestion de l’ Environnement Urbain  
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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...

Year: 2006, Number of pages: 22, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
The Sustainable Cities Sri Lanka Programme 1999-2004  
View Details The Government of Sri Lanka launched the Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) under the auspices of UN-HABITAT & UNDP in December 1999. The initial objective was to help three municipal councils located in the Greater Colombo Core Area to experimen...
Year: 2006, Number of pages: 36, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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