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The State of the World's Cities Report 2006-2007

The Millennium Development Goals and Urban Sustainability - 30 Years of Shaping the Habitat Agenda

( Print: July 2006 )

Although poverty remains a primarily rural phenomenon, urban poverty is becoming a severe, pervasive – and largely unacknowledged feature of urban life. The findings in this report show how...

State of the World's Cities 2008-2009

Harmonious Cities

( Print: October 2008 )

The 21st century is the Century of the City. Cities contain both order and chaos. How can city planners and policymakers harmonize the various interests, diversity and inherent contradictions within...

State of the World's Cities 2010/2011

Bridging the Urban Divide

( Print: April 2010 )

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...

State of the World's Cities 2012/2013

Prosperity of Cities

( Print: November 2012, PDF: April 2013 )

What this new edition of State of the World’s Cities shows is that prosperity for all has been compromised by a narrow focus on economic growth. UN-Habitat suggests a fresh approach to prosperity...

The State of African Cities 2014

Re-Imagining Sustainable Urban Transitions

Series: The State of African Cities

( Print: September 2015, PDF: December 2015 )

Africa is in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Its economic performance is...

L'etat des villes Africaines 2014

Réinventer la transition urbaine

Series: L'état des villes africaines

( PDF: December 2015 )

Le continent africain se trouve en proie à des mutations majeures qui se déroulent simultanément dans les domains démographique, économique, technologique, environnemental, urbain et sociopolitique...

Responding to the Challenges of Corruption

( Print: June 2000 )

This publication attempts to identify the problem related to corruption and their effects on good governance, with particular attention given to the risk presented by corruption to economic and...

The State of African Cities 2010

Governance, Inequality and Urban Land Markets

Series: The State of African Cities

( Print: April 2011 )

This Report goes above and beyond the first Report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. While examining poverty, slum incidence and governance, this...

Criminal Victimization in Countries in Transition

Series: UNICRI Monograph

( Print: May 1999 )

This publication presents a synthesis of the results of the 1996-97 International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) carried out in 20 countries in transition. A companion to the International Crime Victim...

International Crime Victim Survey in Countries in Transition, The

National Reports

Series: UNICRI Monograph

( Print: May 1999 )

This volume presents the complete national reports of 20 countries in transition that took part in the 1996-97 International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS), and accompanies Criminal Victimisation in...

World Cities Report 2016

Urbanization and Development - Emerging Futures

Series: World Cities Report

( Print: July 2016, PDF: July 2016 )

The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and...

State of Urban Youth Report 2012-2013

Youth in the Prosperity of Cities

( PDF: April 2016 )

This report examines both the developed and the developing world, and how the formal sector is unable to provide adequate employment opportunities for young people seeking gainful work. The inability...

Informal Transport in the Developing World

( Print: November 2003 )

This study reviews the informal transport sector throughout the world, and identifies promising enabling and remedial strategies. The publication is a valuable tool for local, regional and national...

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.13

No Place for Young People

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: July 2017 )

This journal aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and awareness of the international community's priority issues in the field of justice, crime prevention and human rights. The Magazine...