Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the 21st century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequ...
Year: 2012,
Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book
Cities and Climate Change reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significant c...
Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
Cities and Climate Change reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significan...
Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 250, Type of publication: Book
Le présent rapport analyse les liens entre l'urbanisation et le changement climatique, les effets potentiellement dévastateurs du changement climatique sur les populations urbaines et les nouvelles pratiques et stratégies politiques adoptées dans les...
Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
Las Ciudades y el Cambio Climático examina los vínculos entre la urbanización y el cambio climático, los impactos potencialmente devastadores del cambio climático en las poblaciones urbanas y las respuestas y prácticas de políticas que están surgiend...
Year: 2011,
Number of pages: 100, Type of publication: Book
Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that t...
Year: 2009,
Number of pages: 336, Type of publication: Book
This paper reviews the dramatic transformations which have taken place in the cities of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the collapse of communist regimes in the region twenty years ago. The paper further analyzes how urban planning...
Year: 2009,
Number of pages: 166, Type of publication: Book
Since the year 2000 the City of Toronto, Canada's most populous municipality, has mounted a sustained, high-profile campaign to ensure the devolution of more powers and resources from its provincial and federal counterparts. This campaign for a 'Ne...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 57, Type of publication: Book
After brief discussion of governance as a context for approaches to combating poverty, this paper presents tri-sector partnerships as an emerging strategy with the potential of being more effective than more narrowly conceived public-private partners...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 102, Type of publication: Book
Municipal Finance of Urban Development was prepared as a background paper for the UN-Habitat Global Report 2005: Financing Urban Shelter and a summary was included as Chapter 3 of the Global Report under the title: Municipal Finance: Conditions and T...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 148, Type of publication: Book
Professor Yeh explores the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a Planning Support System for urban planning. Despite the growing popularity of participatory approaches ...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 35, Type of publication: Book
This publication, which focuses on crime and violence, is the first of three volumes of the Abridged Edition of the Global Report 2007. The main purpose of this volume is to present, in summary form, the main findings of the Global Report 2007 on ...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 38, Type of publication: Book
This publication, which focuses on security of tenure and forced evictions, is the second of three volumes of the Abridged Edition of the Global Report 2007. The main purpose of this volume is to present, in summary form, the main findings of the ...
Year: 2008,
Number of pages: 33, Type of publication: Book
