Cities of the World
15/03/2011 16:07
This article constitutes a chapter of the “Livre Urbain” (Urban Book) to be published in 2011 and coordinated by Françoise Lieberherr.
The urban agenda is probably too broad to be an international priority. This explains why during the last three decades, the United Nations system...
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22/11/2010 00:00
A l'ouverture de la Conférence de Bamako je voudrais partager quelques chiffres et quelques réflexions. Je décrirai ensuite la situation actuelle avant de conclure sur les enjeux de l’urbanisation que notre réunion devrait analyser et soumettre aux Ministres Africains de l’Habitat et du...
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15/11/2010 00:00
Speech in Mexico City as farewell to the Cities Alliance Executive Committee, 15 November 2010 .
As you may know I have worked for 30 years in international cooperation on housing and urban development. I have managed the technical cooperation division of UN-Habitat since 1994, established the...
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12/10/2010 00:00
UN-HABITAT was very proud to participate in the Hanoi Millennium Conference, celebrating 1000 years of the city’s cumulative history and development, on 12-13 October 2010.
The coming together of many experts for the celebration of Hanoi Millennium was a very important initiative to look back...
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10/10/2010 00:00
Fifty years ago, the self-government of Singapore created the Housing and Development Board (HDB). When the country became fully independent in 1965 the first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, saw dilapidated housing and slums, which were widespread at the time as the most visible mark of...
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04/10/2010 00:00
In 2010, Shanghai counts a population of some 16.5 million inhabitants according to the United Nations Population Division[1]. It is China’s largest city and the economic capital of a country that has experienced a growth rate of over 10 percent per year for more than 20 years.
Located in...
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30/09/2010 00:00
An article by Daniel Biau[1] and Alain Kanyinda[2] published in "Urban World", September 2010.
On 4 August 2010, a new Constitution was approved by two third of the registered Kenyan voters in a national referendum organised as a part of the fundamental reforms agreed upon by the Kenyan...
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28/04/2010 00:00
In April 2010 the first international meeting on the State of Arab Cities took place in Kuwait City, in a place only three hundred kilometres from Uruk, the Mesopotamian city-state.
Located on the Euphrates, Uruk is considered as the first city in the world history. Under King Gilgamesh, five...
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14/07/2009 00:00
Depuis trois décennies la criminalité urbaine augmente dans de nombreux pays en développement, notamment en Afrique et en Amérique Latine[1]. Les homicides, vols et cambriolages font partie du quotidien des métropoles africaines et affectent une grande partie de la population dans des villes telles...
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17/05/2009 10:37
Buenos Aires.pdf
This article is the Spanish version of the article on "Misguided housing credit" published in "Urban World" in March 2009.
Thanks to Claudia Laub, Editor of PoSIbles, Buenos Aires.
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