The Sustainable Cities Dialogue was co-organized by UN-Habitat and United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) within the framework of the United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities (UNACLA) and the Global Taskforce of local and regional governments. It took place in Strasbourg, France on May 24 and 25th 2018, in the European Parliament, at the invitation of Roland Ries, Mayor of Strasbourg, Co-President of UCLG and Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat. It was…

Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting ¨Elaboration of the Quadrennial Report: Progress on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda¨ held in Granada, Spain, 20th-23th March 2018.

The State of Pakistani Cities report is a pivotal document which identifies the underlying socio-economic drivers contributing to the state of urbanization in the ten largest cities and their efficacy to respond to the urbanization challenges.

As an extension of the Buraidah City Profile, the demonstration project will apply the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) principles on sustainable neighbourhood planning, applicable to the Saudi context. One of the primary goals of the project is to demonstrate how to implement possible solutions for shifting urbanisation in Saudi to a sustainable development track, without adopting heterotopic models. Instead, it intends to develop locally rooted traditions and culture…

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…

While more often than not, ‘housing’ is defined as a basic need which provides family access to shelter and basic amenities, also enabling the creation of demand for resources, physical infrastructure, labour, technology, finance, and land. Housing is a physical manifestation of social and cultural practices and forms an integral part of the assessment of the development and health of an economy. Thus housing refers not only to the physical structure of a house but its forward and backward…

The UN-Habitat guide to Addressing Urban and Human Settlement Issues in National Adaptation Plans was launched at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-24) in Katowice, Poland.

Practical tool for local governments and city-level actors to understand the connection between Climate Action, Resilience and Urban Development with accompanying indicators.

Practical tool for local governments and city-level actors to understand the connection between Gender, Resilience and Urban Development with accompanying indicators.