WHY HAS 50 years of development cooperation failed to address the needs of much of the
population in low-and middle-income nations? Among the many competing explanations …

The text for what is termed “The New Urban Agenda” is being prepared for agreement by
national government representatives at Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on …

This paper developed from a background report prepared for the Millennium Project's
Taskforce on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers (of which David Satterthwaite was a …

This paper is about the current and potential role of community-driven initiatives to
significantly improve the lives of hundreds of millions of slum dwellers and squatters at local …

Executive summary Debates over a new set of goals post-2015 contain plenty of references
to the need to take into account urbanisation and urban poverty (United Nations (UN) High …

This paper reviews progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water
and sanitation in urban areas. Drawing on UN data, it shows the disastrous performance of …

Summary The United Nation's recent endorsement of a stand-alone urban Sustainable
Development Goal and the immanent formulation of Habitat III marks a watershed in global …

The scale and pace of urbanization in the economic and social transformations of
developing countries continue to be among the most overlooked phenomena of the twenty …

After having been around for 8 years as the international community's largest multi-agency
global support programme for urban development in developing countries, is it still …

The joint meeting of the World Planners Congress and the UN-HABITAT World Urban
Forum, in Vancouver in June 2006, signified a major shift in global thinking about the future …