The challenge of slums : global report on human settlements, 2003 / United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

Contributor:

United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slums.

Slums--Case studies.

Slums--Government policy.

Urban poor--Housing.

Urban poor.

Urban poor--Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 310 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2003.

Summary:

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. TheGlobal 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.

Contents:

Developing context and the millennium agenda

Urbanization trends and forces shaping slums

Cities and slums within globalizing economies

Social dimensions

Territoriality and spatial forms

Economic dynamics

New policy developments at the national and global levels

Civil society in action

Towards inclusive cities : reconsidering development priorities.

Notes:

"UN-HABITAT."

"First published in the UK and USA in 2003 by Earthscan Publications LTD for and on behalf of the United National Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) [Nairobi, Kenya]"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-300) and index.

ISBN:

9781849772907 (e-book)

9781844070367 (hbk.)

9781844070374 (pbk.)

1-84977-290-8

1-136-55476-9

1-136-55475-0

1-280-47611-7

9786610476114

600-00-0018-9

1-4175-8331-2

9781849772907

OCLC:

560112250