Guide to the City Resilience Profiling Tool 2018 UN-Habitat defines a resilient city as one that is able to absorb, adapt and recover from the shocks and stresses that are likely to happen, transforming itself in a positive way toward sustainability. This guiding document explores the concept and various elements of urban resilience, and explains the various phases of the City Resilience Profiling Tool, which supports local actors to make a plan for resilience-based urban development in their city.
Municipal Development Plan (MDP) Evaluation Report – Mitrovica South 2018 The aim of this activity is to assess the implementation of the Municipal Development Plan 2009 – 2025+ (and following Urban Development Plans
and Urban Regulatory Plans) for the Municipality of Mitrovica South in practice, compatibility among the planning documents and their compliance with the new Law on Spatial Planning (No. 04/L-174) in Kosovo. Outputs serve as a baseline and lessons learned for drafting the new Municipal Development Plan and Municipal Zoning Map for Mitrovica South.
UN-Habitat country programme Mozambique 2018-2021 2018 UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.
UN-Habitat has been working in Mozambique since 2002. Throughout the past years, UN-Habitat has built a strong position in the country and has worked closely with the Government of Mozambique and its partners. Currently UN-Habitat is working with teams based in Maputo, Nampula and Quelimane on projects concerning seven provinces. During the past 15 years, amongst others, the following areas were supported: urban planning and infrastructure, disaster risk reduction, rehabilitation and advocacy for urban resilience, housing and informal settlements upgrading, improving access to basic facilities and various training, studies and policy development support to the Government of Mozambique.
Energy and Resource Efficient Urban Neighbourhood Design Principles for Tropical Countries. Practitioner’s Guidebook 2018 Urban areas generate around 70% of global energy use and energy-related Green House Gas (GHG) emissions (IEA 2009), thus cities in the developing world, where most of the growth will take place, will have a significant impact on GHG emissions, seriously threatening any effort to reduce them – unless new urban developments are designed to minimise their impact.
Aproximaciones a la prosperidad urbana: El caso del Área metropolitana de Bucaramanga 2018 En 1981 el Área Metropolitana de Bucaramanga (AMB) fue creada por mutuo acuerdo entre Bucaramanga, Floridablanca y Girón. Se acordó la creación de una entidad administrativa que gestionara las relaciones funcionales que en materia social, ambiental, económica, demográfica y cultural, existían entre dichos municipios1 . En 1984, el municipio de Piedecuesta se adhirió a esta iniciativa, consolidando así un territorio funcional en el que aproximadamente viven 1.2 millones de personas según datos de 2018 de su Observatorio Metropolitano.
Rapid City Profile Ubari 2018 The report consists of a multi-sectoral tool providing a detailed assessment of the urban functionality and services, and the population dynamics with a focus on the conflict implications in terms of demographic changes, infrastructure damage, socio-economic landscape and coping mechanisms adopted by the population
Country Profile Sudan 2018
Tool for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Cuba (in Spanish) 2018 The tool has a direct translation to the National Action Plan of Cuba, an official document developed in parallel by the Institute of Physical Planning.
UN-HABITAT Regional Office for Arab States: Overview 2018 2018 For more than 40 years, UN-Habitat has been leading the way in building partnerships, sharing knowledge and transforming lives through sustainable urbanization. Mandated by the UN General Assembly in 1978 to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements, and to develop and achieve adequate shelter for all, UN-Habitat envisions well-planned, well-governed, resilient and efficient cities and human settlements, with adequate housing, infrastructure, and universal access to employment and basic services. Its programmes and projects are designed to help policy-makers and local communities get to grips with human settlements and urban issues to achieve sustainable urban development to all.
Saudi Cities Profiles Report 2018 Saudi Cities Profile Report for the year 2018 has been published. It has been prepared based on the new trends in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, such as Vision 2030 and the National Program of Transformation (II). The report also benefited from the results of the cities prosperity index and Urban Planning and Design Laboratory (Urban Lab).This report was presented at an internal workshop at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs in May 2018.