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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...

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...


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Global Report on Human Settlements 2005

Financing Urban Shelter

( Print: October 2005 )

This Report examines the challenges of financing urban shelter development, focusing on the shelter needs of the poor and within the overall context of the United Nations Millennium Development target...

This Report examines the challenges of financing urban shelter development, focusing on the shelter needs of the poor and within the overall context of the United Nations Millennium Development target...


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Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

The Challenge of Slums

( Print: December 2003 )

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, highlighting their main problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of...

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, highlighting their main problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of...


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Urban Trialogues

Localising Agenda 21

( Print: May 2005 )

As towns and cities grow at unprecedented rates, sustainable urbanization is one of the most pressing challenges facing the global community in the 21st century. Set in the global debate on...

As towns and cities grow at unprecedented rates, sustainable urbanization is one of the most pressing challenges facing the global community in the 21st century. Set in the global debate on...


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State of the World's Cities 2004-2005, The

Globalization and Urban Culture

( Print: October 2004 )

The State of the World's Cities 2004/2005 charts the progress and the challenges we face in this rapidly urbanising world. With contributions from some of the world's leading urban scholars, writers...

The State of the World's Cities 2004/2005 charts the progress and the challenges we face in this rapidly urbanising world. With contributions from some of the world's leading urban scholars, writers...


Global Report on Human Settlements 2001

Cities in a Globalizing World

( Print: June 2001 )

The central challenge of the 21st century will be how to make both globalization and urbanization work for all the world's people. This report describes the impact of globalization on cities and what...

The central challenge of the 21st century will be how to make both globalization and urbanization work for all the world's people. This report describes the impact of globalization on cities and what...


State of the World's Cities 2001, The

( Print: June 2001 )

The State of the World's Cities is the first in-depth attempt to monitor, analyze and report on the realities faced by urban populations around the world. It explores a range of urban issues and...

The State of the World's Cities is the first in-depth attempt to monitor, analyze and report on the realities faced by urban populations around the world. It explores a range of urban issues and...


Urbanizing World, An

Global Report on Human Settlements

( Print: October 1996 )

A thought-provoking analysis that goes to the heart of the central dilemma now confronting all human settlements as they stand on the threshold of a new urban world. Practical information is given...

A thought-provoking analysis that goes to the heart of the central dilemma now confronting all human settlements as they stand on the threshold of a new urban world. Practical information is given...