Books by Un-Habitat

Explores the existing and cross-cutting opportunities to achieve development goals through the transformative force of urbanization. Th report also discusses the elaboration of targets, progress for selected indicators, placing special emphasis on partnership arrangement and opportunities for financing and scaling up activities and programmes.

Reviews the major challenges currently facing cities and towns all over the world, the emergence and spread of modern urban planning and the effectiveness of current approaches. More importantly, it identifies innovative urban planning approaches and practices that are more responsive to the current and future challenges of urbanisation.

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. This title analyzes worldwide trends with respect to each of these threats, focusing on their underlying causes and impacts.

Examines the links between urbanization and climate change, the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations and the policy responses and practices that are emerging in urban areas. This title offers global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends.

In our rapidly urbanizing global society, solid waste management will be a key challenge facing all the world's cities. Using the framework of Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM), this report brings together research from 22 cities across six continents. It uncovers the rich diversity of waste management systems that are in place.

Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. This report adopts the concept of Harmonious Cities as a theoretical framework in order to understand urban world, and also as an operational tool to confront the most important challenges facing urban areas and their development processes.

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. This title focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of water and sanitation where most of the populations of the developing world live: in towns and small cities.

Presents a review of the world's cities and analyses the positive and negative impacts on human settlements of the global trends towards social and economic integration and changes in information and communication technologies. This title focuses on trends in human settlements and their implications for poverty, inequity and social polarization.

Presents a global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies. This title describes and analyses housing finance conditions and trends in various regions of the world, including formal housing finance mechanisms, microfinance and community funding.