This report, covers five strategic steps to nurture and grow smarter cities. It aims to make easy access of international readers to the information about policies and practices that have engendered smart urbanization of China in the past 60 years. It also provides the experiences, lessons and challenges faced by China in sustaining its urban development in the context of rapid industrialization and urbanization within a globalizing world.

Climate change is as obvious as severe is the peril it suppose for ecosystems, infrastructure, livelihoods and health itself. We do have, however, ways to reduce its damages, decreasing the intensity of effects (mitigation) and minimizing the vulnerability to them (adaptation).

The Shanghai Manual for Better Cities is a concrete outcome of the World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China - Better City, Better Life. It is a product of fruitful collaboration between the Municipal Government of Shanghai, the Bureau International des Exhibitions and the United Nations. It addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time – how to foster sustainable, livable and harmonious cities.

In a rapidly urbanizing global society, solid waste management will be a key challenge facing all the world's cities.

UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intercity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground interviews, insights and images. São Paulo: A Tale of Two Cities launches the series, providing a close look at this vast mega city of internal contradictions and complexities.

This report is based on data from UN-HABITAT’s Global Urban Indicator Database, as well as surveys of, and focus group discussions with, selected representative groups of young people in five major cities located in four developing regions: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Mumbai (India), Kingston (Jamaica), Nairobi (Kenya) and Lagos (Nigeria).

La population de Yaoundé, capitale du Cameroun, est estimée à 1,5 million d’habitants et on y retrouve tous les groupes ethniques du pays.

This report discribes the main challenges for low income housing and approaches for tackling low income housing in China.

Masaka Strategic Urban Development Plan has been prepared by the UN-HABITAT in collaboration with the Municipality of Masaka.