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Looks at a recycling initiative in Mukuru, a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, where a group of former scavengers have formed the Mukuru Recycling Centre. The scavengers collect waste, separate it,...
Shows how the city council of Moshi, a town located on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, with the help of the Sustainable Cities Programme of UNCHS (Habitat), is holding a consultation to hear the views from...
Examines post-war disaster management in Angola, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Rwanda and Somalia. Shows how cities have been reduced to rubble can be rebuilt through partnership. These case studies illustrate how...
Focuses on the low-income financing scheme designed to support householders reconstruct their houses after they had been allocated plots within the new site plan drawn up for Namuwongo in Uganda. Analyses...
Describes the community rehabilitation process following the civil war in Angola. It is a joint UNCHS/UNDP project to rebuild infrastructure and provincial government buildings.
Demonstrates the urgent need to give women rights to land and property, given that traditionally, many women have been denied inheritance rights. Focuses on the case of a woman survivor of the Rwanda...
Given that cities share in common crises that endanger the sustainability of our habitat, looks at the lives of ordinary families and describes the deteriorating urban environment in four cities: Chenni,...
Argues that, with half the world’s population now living in urban areas, cities are a good focal point for intervention to help reduce unsustainable consumption patterns and make the world ecologically...
Looks at the problem of urban street children. Follows some of the 40,000 children living in gangs in Nairobi, Kenya, and a number of projects by non-governmental organisations aimed at helping them. Argues...
With over half the entire population living in towns and cities for the first time in history, the UN Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II, was held in Istanbul in June 1996 to celebrate a new human...
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