This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines how urban citizenship, civic participation and community engagement have evolved in Ukraine, and what they mean for inclusive and democratic urban recovery. It explores the influence of Soviet-era governance, post-independence political transformations, decentralisation reforms, the…

This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines the evolution and current state of Ukrainian university education in urban development and planning, considering its historical legacies, institutional reforms and the impact of war. It finds that higher education has diversified beyond traditional architecture and engineering…

​​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines the past, present and future of Ukraine’s built environment professions, arguing that architects, planners, engineers and related specialists are central to the country’s reconstruction and European integration. It traces their evolution from the centralised Soviet system through…

​​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines the evolution of Ukraine’s social housing policy, from Soviet-era public housing provision and post-1991 privatisation to recent efforts to expand social and affordable housing in response to the war. It finds that the near-disappearance of public housing provision, limited…

​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines how Ukraine’s housing system has evolved from its Soviet and post-Soviet legacy to the current context of war, displacement and reconstruction. It looks at housing stock, affordability, tenure, rental markets, social housing, finance, planning, energy efficiency and building…

​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines how Ukraine’s decentralization reform has shaped local governance and recovery planning, tracing the evolution from highly centralized Soviet-era governance through post-independence devolution and the formal decentralization reforms initiated after 2014. It finds that the transfer of…

​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines how Ukraine’s land and property system has evolved from Soviet-era collective/state ownership through post-1991 privatization, decentralization and recent digitization reforms, and how these legacies continue to affect housing and urban development. While Ukraine has made significant…

​​This report is jointly prepared by Wuhan Planning& Design Institute (WPDI) and the United NationsHuman Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) which presents an in-depth study on the governance conditions and transformative pathways of informal settlements in Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia. Against the backdrop of accelerating global urbanization and the severe slum problem, the crisis surrounding informal settlements has grown increasingly acute across Southeast Asia. As a key economic…

The Gaza Urban Profile 2026 provides a spatially informed, evidence-based analysis of urban deterioration across the Gaza Strip. Through its Neighbourhood Functionality Index, it highlights the scale and geographic distribution of impacts, providing a critical evidence base to inform the prioritization and sequencing of an area-based recovery and reconstruction.