Un Habitat: 11 books
State of the World's Cities 2012/2013
Prosperity of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a locus...
Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities
Local Action for Global Goals
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.' Peter Adamson, founder, New Internationalist, and author and researcher of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children from 1980 to 1995 The world's governments agreed at the Millennium Summit...
Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility
Global Report on Human Settlements 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for...
State of the World's Cities 2008/9
Harmonious Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. They are like a journey that never ends. Their evolution is determined by their ascent into greatness or their descent into decline. They are the past, the present and the future. Cities contain both order...
Financing Urban Shelter
Global Report on Human Settlements 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'Achieving the goals set by world leaders in the United Nations Millennium Declaration will be difficult without a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers, and the lives of slum dwellers cannot be improved without the sound and sustainable economic development that is conducive to the...
Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres
Water and Sanitation in the Worlds Cities 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Half of the world's people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities. Taking on the themes of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities (2003), this new volume focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of water and...
Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities
Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
In our rapidly urbanizing global society, solid waste management will be a key challenge facing all the world's cities. Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities provides a fresh perspective and new data on one of the biggest issues in urban development. Using the framework of Integrated Sustainable...
Cities in a Globalizing World
Global Report on Human Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central...
by Un-Habitat
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they...
Enhancing Urban Safety and Security
Global Report on Human Settlements 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide trends with respect to each of these threats, paying particular attention...
Planning Sustainable Cities
Global Report on Human Settlements 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality....