The Challenge of Slums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Challenge of Slums write by United Nations Human Settlements Programme. This book was released on 2012-05-23. The Challenge of Slums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums, the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities, governments, civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.
Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planet of Slums write by Mike Davis. This book was released on 2007-09-17. Planet of Slums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.
The Challenge of the Slums
The Challenge of the Slums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Challenge of the Slums write by Frances Gallagher. This book was released on 1940. The Challenge of the Slums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The challenge of slums
The challenge of slums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The challenge of slums write by . This book was released on 2003. The challenge of slums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cities with 'slums'
Cities with 'slums' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities with 'slums' write by Marie Huchzermeyer. This book was released on 2011. Cities with 'slums' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban policy ... encourages this interpretation. The cases it presents cover a range of conflicts between poor urban residents and the local and national authorities that seek to curtail their 'right to the city'."--Back cover.
