The need for planning cannot be over-emphasized. Urbanization is progressing rapidly and by 2050, seven out of ten people will be living in cities. Inappropriate policies, plans and designs have led to inadequate spatial distribution of people and activities, resulting in proliferation of slums, congestion, poor access to basic services, environmental degradation, and social inequity and segregation.

Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting “Municipal Finance In Developing Cities: Review Of Land-Based Finance Training Package for Financing Sustainable Urban Development” held in Barcelona, Spain, 20-21 May 2015.

Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting "The Role of Intermediate Cities in Strengthening Urban-Rural Linkages towards the New Urban Agenda” held in Montería, Colombia, 27-28 October 2015.

Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting ¨The Role of Metropolitan Development in Supporting the New Urban Agenda” held in Guadalajara, México, 3-4 December 2015

Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting “New Legal Frameworks for Urban Development” held in Barcelona, Spain, 17-18 December 2015

The Habitat III Issue Papers have been prepared by the United Nations Task Team on Habitat III, a task force of UN agencies and programmes working together towards the elaboration of the
New Urban Agenda. The Issue Papers were finalized during the UN Task Team writeshop held in New York from 26 to 29 May 2015.

This work made with the Metropolitan Area of the Valle de Aburra in 2014, highlights its progress in the formulation of guidelines, determinants, and guidelines that have contributed to the construction of an orderly and sustainable Metropolitan Territorial Ordinance Model, but above all aware of the social, economic and environmental reality facing its territory

The Report on the Street Connectivity of the Saudi Cities is based on 17 cities that are part of the Future Saudi Arabia Cities Programme, aiming to contribute to the achievement of sustainable urbanization in the Kingdom.

All cities aspire to be great cities. This pocket guide aims to demon-strate why resilience is for everyone and for every city. While there is often an emphasis on planning for resilience in the world’s most rapidly urbanizing areas, many of the case studies featured here ex-press the need for, and value of, resilience building in those regions where urban population growth has peaked.