This publication is the second report of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE) to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat.
This note provides a short overview of urban land and housing market performance in Punjab Province of Pakistan. It describes the characteristics of well-functioning urban land and housing markets and argues that, at present, the Punjab's urban land and housing markets are not performing well.
Este texto apresenta algumas ideias relacionadas com os processos de (re)construção das identidades familiares, suscitadas no decorrer de uma investigação sobre estratégias de sobrevivência e reprodução social de famílias da periferia de Maputo.
Forced evictions are widespread in Kenyan cities and are, on the surface, caused by conflicts in land rights, non–payment of excessive land and house rents, and urban redevelopment.
Realiza una revisión crítica de las teorías tradicionales de marginalidad urbana y del tratamiento que hacen de las dimensiones ecológicas del fenómeno. Analiza el impacto de las diferentes formas de integración desigual en las áreas precarias y la intervención planificada en asentamientos precarios. Presenta una pauta de orientaciones metodológicas para los estudios de casos.
Considera los principales problemas de Lima Metropolitana y la posibilidad de modificar su estilo de crecimiento. Analiza el caso de la vivienda, suelo urbano, las modalidades de actuacion del capital inmobiliario, la intervencion del Estado en todo este proceso, tugurios y barriadas, y la situacion en lo relativo al transporte y servicios, especialmente agua potable.
This paper focused on the policies and programmes relating to human settlements, aspects of urban land policies and of policies for rational urban promotion and the elimination of uncontrolled settlements and slums.
Study of the urbanization problem of slums and squatters in six urban areas of the Philippines - describes the communities and their social problems (e.g., unemployment, housing, social services); similarities between the communities in such characteristics as reasons for rural migration, educational level, desire for land ownership, capacity for social participation and political participation
Two images have dominated the northern media in recent months.The first is of desolation in remote, rural areas in Africa affected by drought, conflict or famine, such as in Somalia, northern Kenya or Darfur, Sudan. The second is a different kind of desolation - that of urban squalor as portrayed in the film «The Constant Gardener».