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State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 - Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide  
View Details 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 infrastructure?

Following on from previous St...

Year: 2010, Number of pages: 224, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Guide to Preparing a Housing Finance Strategy: Human Settlements Financing Tools and Best Practices  
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This guide sets out the key elements of a housing finance strategy and the process of developing a housing finance strategy, including the study of housing demand, identifying available resources, market forces and strategies to accomplishing ho...

Year: 2009, Number of pages: 109, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Urban World: Innovative cities: Why learning is the key to urban development  
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This issue of Urban World covers innovative cities. It examines why learning is the key to smarter urban development.

Year: 2009, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Promoting Local Economic Development through Strategic Planning: Local Economic Development (LED) series  
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The Local Economic Development (LED) series is a resource for local governments, businesses and civil society organizations to help them initiate and implement local economic development interventions through a strategic planning process. The seri...

Year: 2009, Number of pages: 116, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
State of the World’s Cities 2008/2009 - Harmonious Cities  
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Half of humanity now lives in cities, and within two decades, nearly 60 per cent of the world’s people will be urban dwellers. Urban growth is most rapid in the developing world, where cities gain an average of 5 million residents every month. As ...

Year: 2008, Number of pages: 224, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Governing Our Cities: Will People Power Work  
View Details The massive challenge of preparing cities to meet the 21century has prompted the emergence over recent years of a remarkable and radical international consensus. At the heart of this is how all city dwellers, particularly the vast majority with subsi...
Year: 2005, Periodicity: Monthly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Key Competencies for Improving Local Governance - Local Elected Leadership (LEL) Series  
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The Local Elected Leadership (LEL) series presents two roles and ten competencies essential for every elected official to effectively perform their job when serving local communities. The series contains many training exercises and tools that ca...

Year: 2005, Number of pages: 28, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Promoting Local Economic Development through Strategic Planning: Local Economic Development (LED) series  
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The Local Economic Development (LED) series is a resource for local governments, businesses and civil society organizations to help them initiate and implement local economic development interventions through a strategic planning process. The seri...

Year: 2005, Number of pages: 39, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Habitat Debate Vol.10 No. 1, A new era cooperation with local authorities  
View Details A new era cooperation with local authorities
Year: 2004, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Local Democracy and Decentralization in East and Southern Africa  
View Details This publication is set to highlight the broad range of issues that requires consideration with regard to local democracy and decentralization in East and Southern Africa. It aims at providing brief overviews on decentralization processes in the five...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 115, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Innovations in Local Governance and Decentralization in East Africa: An Inventory  
View Details This volume is a compilation of innovations in local governance and decentralization process drawn from the experience of workshops held in each of the three East African region namely; Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Different definations of innovatio...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 61, Type of publication: Book
Habitat Debate Vol. 8, No. 3, City to City Cooperation  
View Details In the last decade, cities have increasingly been recognized as key players in our globalizing world. The dominance of cities in the current world economy and global trends towards democratization and decentralization have raised the profile and impo...
Year: 2002, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Habitat Debate Vol. 8, No. 1, Decentralization: False Start or New Dawn?  
View Details For the last forty years of the twentieth century, decentralization had a chequered history. Decentralization means transfer of real power from the national level of government to the municipal or local level, where it can be more easily observed and...
Year: 2002, Periodicity: Quarterly, Type of publication: Periodical Download electronic version (PDF)
Implementation of the Habitat Agenda (Guide for Local Authorities and their Associations)  
View Details This guide looks at the role of local authorities in the implementation of the Habitat Agenda at the local, national and international levels.
Year: 1998, Number of pages: 17, Type of publication: Book
 
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