The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice

F Caprotti, R Cowley, A Datta, VC Broto… - Urban research & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The UN-HABITAT III conference held in Quito in late 2016 enshrined the first Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) with an exclusively urban focus. SDG 11, as it became known …

The prospects and challenges of developing more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities in Nigeria

IR Abubakar, YA Aina - Land Use Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
The recent transition from the millennium development goals (MDGs) to the sustainable
development goals (SDGs) raises concerns about the extent to which developing countries …

Sustainable housing and the urban poor

P Smets, P van Lindert - International Journal of Urban Sustainable …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
After last year's adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the year 2016 promises to be a landmark year for …

[PDF][PDF] The Challenge of Slum Formation

C Acioly Jr - Bell, M. and Bowman, J.(2002)“Property Taxes in South …, 2007 - lincolninst.edu
© Claudio acioly april 2007• Land Lines• LincoLn institute of Land PoLicy common
characteristics: the formal land delivery system is not working for many people; land prices …

[图书][B] Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres: Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities, 2006

United Nations Human Settlements Programme - 2006 - books.google.com
*** The follow-up to the highly influential UN-HABITAT publication Water and Sanitation in
the World's Cities, described as" surely the most impressive and important publication to …

Getting started with the SDGs in Cities

C Kanuri, A Revi, J Espey… - SDSN Available …, 2016 - environmentandurbanization.org
Chapter 1 explains the background of the SDGs and the importance of a city-level approach
to the sustainable development agenda. This is a brief and general chapter that would be …

Slums and urban development: Questions on society and globalisation

JC Bolay - The European Journal of Development Research, 2006 - Springer
The slum is not only a manifestation of mismanaged urban planning in the countries of the
South. The existence of slums worldwide is also a sign that the slum is a crucial element of …

The slum upgrading myth

H Werlin - Urban studies, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
The World Bank's slum upgrading approach, used for the first generation of its urban
development projects during the 1970s and 1980s, was considerably influenced by the …

Addressing urban poverty through strengthening assets

D Mitlin - Habitat international, 2003 - Elsevier
The importance of urban poverty is increasingly recognized. This paper seeks to learn from
the experiences of eight urban poverty reduction programmes to understand how effective …

Urban futures in planning, policy and regional science: Are we entering a post-urban world?

H Westlund - Built Environment, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
This paper discusses the challenges that'the triumph of the city'entails for urban policy,
planning and research. The paper contains a brief overview of factors behind the triumph of …