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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...

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...

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...

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...

This is the official report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on the fifty-seventh session held in Vienna from 11 to 20 June 2014.

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

This is the official report submitted to the General Assembly on the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space's forty-eighth session held in Vienna from 8 to 17 June 2005.

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...

This is the official report submitted to the General Assembly on the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space's forty-ninth session held in Vienna from 7 to 16 June 2006.

This is the official report submitted to the General Assembly on The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space's fifty-second session held in Vienna from 3 to 12 June 2009.

Official Records of the Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

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...

This is the official report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on the Fifty-eighth session (10-19 June 2015)

The tenth anniversary of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) brings with it the opportunity to recognize and acknowledge the vital role that satellite technology...