Urban Energy Technical Note 04: Natural Ventilation 2015 Thermal comfort in the built environment is affected by air temperature and air movement. Ventilation, which is simply the removal of stale indoor air from a building and its replacement with fresh outside air, has a great impact on thermal comfort.
Urban Solutions. United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Nairobi 2015 2015 For more than forty years, UN-Habitat has been working in human settlements throughout the world. The efforts of UN-Habitat have been focused on building a brighter future for developing villages, towns and cities of all sizes, which are most in need of support in guiding the process of urbanization. Towards this end we have created a new vision which makes a shift in focus and incorporates three essential urban elements into a new, integrated working methodology: Urban Legislation, Urban Design and Urban Finance, as a three-legged strategy in advancing sustainable urbanization. “Governments want us to promote an integrated approach to planning and building sustainable cities and urban settlements. We are tasked with supporting local authorities, increasing public awareness and enhancing the involvement of local people, including the poor, in decision making.”
Using Minecraft for Youth Participation in Urban Design and Governance 2015 The purpose of this paper is to outline UN-Habitat’s approach to using information and communication technology (ICT) as an enabler to encourage youth participation in urban design and governance.
Enhancing and Developing Seismic Risk Assesment for Pyay City of Myanmar 2015 This paper tends to make earthquake risk assessment in Pyay City. The results will be in useful in developing comprehensive risk reduction programs addressing the specific vulnerabilities in the city. The risk assessment will guide to future development in the cities along with UN-Habitat’s Myanmar Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction Programme and also with broader DRR activities and those of Government.
Discussion paper 3: Enhancing the competitiveness of cities 2015 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the factors that underpin city competitiveness. It draws on recent studies pending publication which indicate that many cities in Asia and Latin America could become more regionally integrated and globally competitive through certain actions and reforms.

This paper offers broad strategies for enhancing the competitiveness of cities in these regions and an agenda for the international community to support their efforts.
Urban Energy Technical Note 15: Feed-in Tariff Policy 2015 Energy has been described as the missing Millennium Development Goal (MDG), the catalyst without which other goals for issues such as health, education and gender equality cannot be achieved. Studies indicate that access to modern energy services and particularly electricity has a positive effect on local economic development and closely correlates to a country’s UN Human Development Index (UNDP, 2012).
Urbanization and Climate Change in Small Island Developing States 2015 This document provides a contextual understanding of the challenges and opportunities of climate change in relation to human settlements in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The Challenge of Local Government Financing in Developing Countries 2015
Unpacking Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Development 2015 This joint publication “Unpacking Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Development” is the product of a close cooperation between GIZ and UN-Habitat. Against the background of rapid urbanization, new forms of power relations between the different levels of government emerge and stronger coordination and cooperation is required.
Balance de la estrategia de integración regional del Distrito Capital 2012-2015 2015 Este documento se estructura de la siguiente manera: en primer lugar, se presentan los objetivos del estudio, seguidos de una exposición de la metodología empleada para identificar avances, lecciones aprendidas y recomendaciones para la Alcaldía Mayor, así como el alcance de esta investigación. Posteriormente se presenta el contexto de la implementación de la Estrategia, la justificación de su formulación y finalmente los principales resultados del balance, el conjunto de lecciones aprendidas, buenas prácticas de la implementación y las recomendaciones identificadas para garantizar la sostenibilidad de los resultados.