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Habitat The United Nations Conference On Human Settlements
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Book Synopsis World Cities Report 2020 by : United Nations
Download or read book World Cities Report 2020 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rapidly urbanizing and globalized world, cities have been the epicentres of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The virus has spread to virtually all parts of the world; first, among globally connected cities, then through community transmission and from the city to the countryside. This report shows that the intrinsic value of sustainable urbanization can and should be harnessed for the wellbeing of all. It provides evidence and policy analysis of the value of urbanization from an economic, social and environmental perspective. It also explores the role of innovation and technology, local governments, targeted investments and the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda in fostering the value of sustainable urbanization.
Download or read book Habitat '76 written by Lindsay Brown and published by Black Dog Pub Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habitat ’76 is an illustrated history of the founding conference of UN Habitat in Vancouver in the mid 1970s, with a particular focus on the conference’s free public component known as Habitat Forum. That first UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements attracted to Vancouver a who’s who of international thinkers on settlements and cities including Margaret Mead, Buckminster Fuller, Mother Teresa, economist Barbara Ward and utopian architect Paolo Soleri, along with politicians such as Pierre Trudeau and Bogota’s famous mayor Enrique Peñalosa. Habitat Forum, designed for activists, NGOs and the general public, was simultaneously deemed an out-of-control hippie gathering and “the official suicide of the counterculture.” Though the Forum had the official UN stamp, suggesting that it was an officially sanctioned substitute for the type of informal protest camp seen at the UN Environment conference in Stockholm in 1972, Habitat Forum was anything but the polite, professionalized urbanist conferences we see today. While the official governmental conference downtown was bogged down by the Israel-Palestinian question, Habitat Forum brought together activists and major thinkers from all over the world in a casual, freewheeling and sometimes fractious environment. It was a catalyzing moment for those who attended, inspiring and influencing their work for decades after. In Habitat ’76 Vancouver writer, designer and civic activist Lindsay Brown tells the story of Habitat Forum: the citizens who circumvented government to make it happen, the many players who participated, and the complex yet little known legacy it left behind. Including hundreds of photographs never before published and interviews with dozens of the original organizers and attendees, the book is the first history of this event. The extensive photo archive in Habitat ’76 details for the first time how in only five months, five vintage military seaplane hangars on Vancouver’s Jericho beach were refurbished into welcoming public spaces by an 11,000-strong army of artists, architects, unemployed youth, students, ex-cons and volunteers in an early feat of DIY recycling and adaptive reuse. Documentation of the site and its construction will interest designers and event organizers alike, while sections on the presentations and discussions that took place there will interest anyone who cares about human settlements. Forty years on, Habitat ’76 provides not only a history of a specific event but a more general picture of the tumultuous 1970s in Vancouver and beyond. The approaches and discourses of that time—optimistic, utopian, imaginative—perhaps merit reconsideration now. Cities now face challenges similar to those already looming in the 1970s, but those challenges have intensified, and Habitat ’76 provides an instructive counterpoint to the contemporary version of urbanism.
Book Synopsis State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 by :
Download or read book State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 written by and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One billion people worldwide live in slums and that figure is predicted to reach 2 billion by 2030. This new volume from UN-HABITAT unpacks the complex social and economic issues using the novel conceptual framework of the urban divide.
Download or read book Human Settlements written by Sam Stuart and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Settlements: An Annotated Bibliography is an annotated bibliography on human settlements and includes books, journal articles, reports, and documents. Documents from Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements with National Reports are arranged alphabetically by country, along with other Conference documents. This book is comprised of four chapters and begins with a list of books, journal articles, reports, and documents dealing with topics such as housing policies, housing problems in underdeveloped areas, and the effects of land reform and rural ordinance programs. The next chapter is devoted to a bibliography of bibliographies, covering topics ranging from land-use planning to rural roads and their potential. The third chapter includes national reports from countries such as Afghanistan, Algeria, and Bangladesh. The bibliography concludes with a subject index of key words subdivided geographically; a secondary author index that includes personal and corporate authors, editors, compilers, and authors of significant introductions; and a list of libraries consulted. This monograph should be of interest to housing officials and policymakers.
Book Synopsis Cities in a Globalizing World by : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Download or read book Cities in a Globalizing World written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization work for all people instead of leaving billions behind or on the margins ... Cities in a Globalizing World: Global Report on Human Settlements 2001 is a comprehensive review of conditions in the world's.
Author :United Nations Human Settlements Programme Publisher :UN-HABITAT ISBN 13 :9789211316278 Total Pages :116 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (162 download)
Book Synopsis Global Urban Indicators Database by : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Download or read book Global Urban Indicators Database written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United Nations Human Settlements Programme Publisher :Routledge ISBN 13 :9781844078998 Total Pages :306 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (789 download)
Book Synopsis Planning Sustainable Cities by : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Download or read book Planning Sustainable Cities written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication 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 traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human settlements and to address twenty-first century challenges, including rapid urbanization, shrinking cities and aging, climate change and related disasters, urban sprawl and unplanned peri-urbanization, as well as urbanization of poverty and informality. It concludes that new approaches to planning can only be meaningful, and have a greater chance of succeeding, if they effectively address all of these challenges, are participatory and inclusive, as well as linked to contextual socio-political processes.--Publisher's description
Book Synopsis Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change by : Astrid Ley
Download or read book Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change written by Astrid Ley and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal »enabling« ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualise the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book. With forewords by Raquel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Sioufi (UN-Habitat).
Book Synopsis Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) by : United Nations
Download or read book Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Law and the New Urban Agenda by : Nestor M. Davidson
Download or read book Law and the New Urban Agenda written by Nestor M. Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future. At the heart of this new vision stand a myriad of legal challenges – and opportunities – that must be confronted for the world to make good on the NUA’s promise. In response, this book, which complements and expands on the editors’ previous volumes on urban law in this series, offers a constructive and critical evaluation of the legal dimensions of the NUA. As the volume’s authors make clear, from natural disasters and resulting urban migration in Honshu and Tacloban, to innovative collaborative governance in Barcelona and Turin, to accessibility of public space for informal workers in New Delhi and Accra, and power scales among Brazil’s metropolitan regions, there is a deep urgency for thoughtful research to understand how law can be harnessed to advance the NUA’s global mission of sustainable urbanism. It thus creates a provocative and academic dialogue about the legal effects of the NUA, which will be of interest to academics and researchers with an interest in urban studies.
Book Synopsis The Group of 77 at the United Nations by : Mourad Ahmia
Download or read book The Group of 77 at the United Nations written by Mourad Ahmia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes included in The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 at the United Nations provide a chronological record of events and documents of the Group of 77 since its creation in 1963. The Fourth Volume brings together for the first time a selection of policy statements, common position papers and other major documents by the Group of 77 relating to environment and sustainable development.
Book Synopsis World Urbanization Prospects by : United Nations Publications
Download or read book World Urbanization Prospects written by United Nations Publications and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report presents findings from the 2018 revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rural populations or areas from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2050, as well as estimates of population size from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2030 for all urban agglomerations with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018. The world urban population is at an all-time high, and the share of urban dwellers, is projected to represent two thirds of the global population in 2050. Continued urbanization will bring new opportunities and challenges for sustainable development.
Book Synopsis Implementation of the Habitat Agenda: Guide for local authorities and their associations by :
Download or read book Implementation of the Habitat Agenda: Guide for local authorities and their associations written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1998 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Publisher :UN-HABITAT ISBN 13 :9789280711592 Total Pages :202 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (115 download)
Book Synopsis Environmental Guidelines for Settlements Planning and Management: Environmental considerations in metropolitan planning and management (MPM) by : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Download or read book Environmental Guidelines for Settlements Planning and Management: Environmental considerations in metropolitan planning and management (MPM) written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The UN Sustainable Development Goals by : Ilias Bantekas
Download or read book The UN Sustainable Development Goals written by Ilias Bantekas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 1489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This historic document constituted a transformative 'plan for action for people, planet and prosperity' with regards to the sustainable development efforts of all countries. The Sustainable Development Goals serves as an expert compendium, the most authoritative ready-reference tool for anyone interested in the SDGs. Each chapter comprises a detailed target-by-target analysis of one of the SDGs, including a methodical analysis of the preparatory proceedings that shaped each goal in its present form, an exhaustive examination of their content, and a critical assessment from an international law perspective. This commentary provides readers with the most up-to-date information on normative and legal questions arising from the incorporation of the SDGs into the international economic, social, and environmental legal frameworks, and on their implementation status. Scholars, practitioners, and those interested in the fields of law, politics, development, economics, environmental studies, and global governance will find this book a must-read.
Author :United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (3 download)
Book Synopsis Foreign Publications Accessions List by : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs
Download or read book Foreign Publications Accessions List written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cities and Homes for All by : Barry Pinsky
Download or read book Cities and Homes for All written by Barry Pinsky and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
