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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003
    Africa

    Africa is the fastest urbanizing region in the world, with the population doubling almost every

    20 years. The rural population is growing at a rate of 2.5 per cent per annum, while the urban

    population is experiencing 5-10 per cent growth per annum. Urbanization becomes a source

    of concern when the challenges it poses are far beyond the national management capacity.

  2. Library Resource

    A guide for municipal practitioners

    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2012
    South Africa

    Urban land markets have a profound effect on how well poor households are able to access the jobs, amenities and services offered in the city. But often the way in which this market works frustrates attempts to open up better located living and business opportunities for poorer urban households and communities, despite government policies and programmes intended to address these challenges. The challenge in South Africa is even larger because of worsening poverty and inequality, and the continuing growth of cities through urbanisation.

  3. Library Resource
    Rural & Urbano

    Dinâmincas Urbanas de concepção do espaço público na cidade do Recife

    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2018
    Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
    O presente artigo tem como objetivo discutir as dinâmicas de concepção do espaço urbano contemporâneo, visto como espaço social, produzido e reproduzido em conexão com as relações políticas e econômicas presentes no processo de implementação do Parque Dona Lindu no Recife (estudo de caso), discussão essa construída a partir dos discursos de alguns representantes do poder público e da sociedade civil, no período de 2003 a 2011.
  4. Library Resource
    Borges

    patrimônio de quem? Sobre produção e apropriação do espaço urbano em terras públicas

    Reports & Research
    April, 2015
    South America, Brazil
    As terras de domínio público dão lugar à produção do espaço urbano assim como as terras de propriedade privada. O contraste entre cidade formal e informal, tão característico no Brasil, não faz essa distinção, estando refletido também nas terras pertencentes à União. Esta, titular da dominialidade sobre esses bens, importante reserva pública de recursos fundiários, estaria representando o interesse público, do Estado, ou da acumulação capitalista, na gestão do que se denomina de Patrimônio da União?
  5. Library Resource

    Engines of Growth and Prosperity for Developing Countries?

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008

    This paper reviews the evidence about the effects of urbanization and cities on productivity and economic growth in developing countries using a consistent theoretical framework. Just like in developed economies, there is strong evidence that cities in developing countries bolster productive efficiency. Regarding whether cities promote self-sustained growth, the evidence is suggestive but ultimately inconclusive. These findings imply that the traditional agenda of aiming to raise within-city efficiency should be continued.

  6. Library Resource
    Global Urban Lectures: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights cover image
    Training Resources & Tools
    Multimedia
    July, 2017
    Global

    Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.

    These are:

    1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;

  7. Library Resource
    UN-Habitat - SDG 11.3 Sustainable urbanization cover image
    Multimedia
    June, 2017
    Global

    A defining feature of many of the world’s cities is an outward expansion far beyond formal administrative boundaries, largely propelled by the use of the automobile, poor urban and regional planning and land speculation. A large proportion of cities both from developed and developing countries have high consuming suburban expansion patterns which often extend to even further peripheries. Cities need to accommodate new and thriving urban functions such as transportation routes, etc. as they expand.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2008
    China, India

    The early development strategies of both China and India were urban- and industry-focused, discounting the importance of rural development. Despite sweeping reforms in both countries, the urban bias and subsequent spatial disparities still exist today. In order to reduce poverty and increase growth, developing countries need to correct these spatial disparities through a set of policies that take advantage of the synergies and linkages between rural and urban areas.

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    This book suggests how that exploration
    should be undertaken, and how a monitoring system that has a
    solid conceptual basis and is both easy to operate and
    reasonable in cost can then be put into practice. Long the
    ideal of many scholars and observers of urban problems, such
    a system may now be close to realization. In this book,
    examples of Latin American cities are used as case studies.
    As argued in the first chapter, there are good reasons to

  10. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Bolivia

    This note is a summary of a report that
    considers urban areas as the complement to rural areas that
    will allow the Plurinational State of Bolivia to achieve the
    goals set forth in its Patriotic Agenda for the Bicentennial
    2025. The report uses data available at the national level
    from censuses and household surveys from the National
    Statistics Institute (INE) and the Social and Economic
    Policy Analysis Unit of the Ministry of Development Planning

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