Technical guidebook for financing planned city extension and planned city infill 2016
Stratification in Bogotá: Social Impact and Alternatives for Allocating Subsidies (in Spanish) 2016 The publication presents an alternative of implementation of a new system for the allocation of subsidies and contributions in public residential services in Colombia.
Urban Development Initiative (UrDI) For the Canaan Area of Port-Au-Prince, Neighbourhood Plan: Canaan IV, 2016 2016 Canaan IV, located in the central part of Canaan, is the densest and is one of the smallest neighbourhood in terms of area. In the north, the slopes are too steep, however, in the south, the presence of wide plateaus gives the potential for development. The proposals in this section are based on a participatory process with the Canaan IV community that lasted an average of three months. The UN-Habitat team maps the existing situation and then the community validates and proposes ideas.
UN-Habitat support to sustainable urban development in Kenya - volume 3 2016 Open-mindedly exploring and investigating opportunities to further improve the conditions for our cities and towns in order to offer an attractive and good living environment will often lead to visions and ideas and eventually to solutions, which might not otherwise have been considered. Continuously searching for new urban solutions is instrumental, as cities and towns are in constant transformation, morphologically, structurally, socially, culturally, and economically. Exploring new solutions and approaches to urban development derived from a particular context also generates new knowledge, which can be transferred elsewhere.
Kalobeyei integrated socio-economic development programme 2016
Tenure responsive land use planning 2016 This guide is primarily designed to provide practical knowledge on how to improve tenure security through land-use planning, with a focus on applications in developing countries.
Myanmar National Building Code (MNBC) - 2016 2016 UN-Habitat developed Myanmar National Building Code (MNBC) in coordination with Ministry of Construction and other technical bodies such as Myanmar Engineering Society (MES), focused on disaster resilient construction methods.
UN-Habitat Environmental and Social Safeguards System 2016 UN-Habitat has developed an improved Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) System, in order to assure sound environmental and social performance throughout the life-cycle of UN-Habitat projects. The ESSS defines the environmental and social objectives and principles that apply to all projects and to the staff that work on those projects.
Report on Sustainable Competitiveness of Cities Worldwide(2015-2016) 2016
Urbanization and Structural Transformation 2016 The analysis of the linkages between degree of urbanization and economic development presented in this report suggests that there are huge and positive variations among continents with few exceptions.