Promoting sustainable urban mobility is highly relevant for UN‐HABITAT’s call for sustainable urban regions across the Globe. Functioning networks for urban mobility and logistics are a precondition for economic activity, access to housing a...

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...

This report documents many effective and equitable examples of sustainable urbanization that are helping to define a new role for urban planning.

This paper investigates linkages between transport and housing/security of tenure issues for the urban poor, primarily in the cities of the developing world (the global South). There are significant connections between transport and housing for th...

Energy has long been recognized to be essential in meeting basic human needs, in stimulating and supporting economic growth and in enhancing the quality of life in human settlements. Increased energy use means increased ability to produce the ne...

This report is one of a series of documents dealing with rural development issues related to the planning of human settlements and of their supporting networks within settlements and in settlement hinterlands. This series is not directly concerned...