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.
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'This book presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasising their problems and prospects.' Oxfam Development Resources Review 'Case studies, statistics, bibliography, and index complement a detailed, lucid, and impressive exposition of the anatomy of the slum.' CHOICE Middletown, CT Aug 2004 'Excellent resource for anyone interested in urban topics in developing nations, and as baseline for thinking about future development policy' FUTURE SURVEY 26:2 February 2004
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Kofi Annan former Secretary-General, The United Nations.
UN-HABITAT The United Nations Human Settlements Program, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
UN-HABITAT The United Nations Human Settlements Program, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
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The 20th century was a time of great change, and the greatest of those changes was in the numbers of people on the globe and where they lived. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secure tenure index, slum interventions, measuring slums, slum policies, disinvested areas, slum definition, collective living quarters, tenure upgrading, slum upgrading programmes, slum islands, slum issues, most slum dwellers, slum formation, slum estates, unauthorized housing, tenure regularization, adequate policy responses, good urban governance, urban stakeholders, katchi abadis, illegal subdivisions, urban land management, slum households, regularization programmes, inclusive cities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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secure tenure index, slum interventions, measuring slums, slum policies, disinvested areas, slum definition, collective living quarters, tenure upgrading, slum upgrading programmes, slum islands, slum issues, most slum dwellers, slum formation, slum estates, unauthorized housing, tenure regularization, adequate policy responses, good urban governance, urban stakeholders, katchi abadis, illegal subdivisions, urban land management, slum households, regularization programmes, inclusive cities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, World Bank, Latin America, South Africa, Mexico City, Cities Alliance, Los Angeles, Phnom Penh, Sao Paulo, Republic of Korea, East Asia, Rio de Janeiro, South Asia, United States, Middle East, New York, Statistical Annex, Costa Rica, World War, Eastern Europe, Global Campaign, Global Report, Millennium Declaration, New Zealand, Sri Lanka New!
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- The World Bank: Structure and Policies (Global Economic Institutions) by Christopher L. Gilbert on page 117, page 146, and Back Matter
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