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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...

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 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 biennially to the General Assembly by the Committee on Contributions on their sixty-sixth session dated 5-30 June 2006.

Official Records of the Report of the Committee on Contributions: Seventieth Session (7-25 June 2010).

Official Records of the Report of the Committee on Contributions: Seventy-first Session (6-24 June 2011).

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...

Official Records of the Report of the Committee on Contributions Seventy-fifth session (1-26 June 2015)

Official Records of the Report of the Committee on Contributions: Seventy-Second Session (4-29 June 2012)