Cuba ofrece tierras a Rusia en usufructo por 30 años
25 May 2023
"Nos están dando un trato preferencial", admitió Boris Titov, jefe del Comité Empresarial Cubano-Ruso, en la apertura de un foro de empresarios rusos en La Habana
urban planning
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La demanda por el derecho a la tierra y a la vivienda continúa en Panamá
23 February 2023
Días pasados la Coordinadora Victoriano Lorenzo y el Movimiento de campesinos e indígenas de Panamá Este, se apersonaron al Ministerio de vivienda y ordenamiento territorial en la ciudad capital exigiendo respuestas a sus continuas demandas por el derecho a una vivienda digna y a la legalización de tierras.
Blogs
Increasing Segregation? Impact of Covid19 in the Cities of Africa and South Asia
04 April 2020
The current Covid 19 pandemic is likely to spread in the next few weeks and months to the South and in particular South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. The impact may well be of a greater scale than that currently experienced in the North; India was the region with the highest loss of live in the 1918-1919 Spanish flu Pandemic. The experience and historical experience suggests that urban areas will be disproportionately affected.
World Urban Forum 9: A promise or a responsibility?
13 February 2018
Major global agreements, such as the Paris climate change agreement, and the SDGs will not come to fruition without local governments
Over a year ago in Quito, after a long negotiation and high involvement of all stakeholders, the atmosphere I could feel in my constituency was that of a promise; a big promise of a different international understanding of the urbanization phenomenon, a new role of cities and local and regional governments in the international governance and a shared vision of the need to rethink models.
Events
The Twelfth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12)
04 November 2024 - 08 November 2024
Cairo
Egypt
WUF12 will focus on localizing the Sustainable Development Goals, shedding light on the local actions and initiatives required to curb the current global challenges affecting the daily life of people, including unaffordable housing, rising living costs, climate change, the lack of basic services, and ongoing conflicts.
It all starts locally.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Challenges of Cyber Security in Digital Land Administration: Digital security in the area of data, AI and sustainable cities
24 April 2024
The webinar, organized by the UNECE Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA), follows a study on ecosystems and security in land administration. It explores the complex landscape shaped by global megatrends and sector-specific drivers, emphasizing the role of technology and digitalization in land administration.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
African Real Estate Society 23rd Annual Conference 2024
09 September 2024 - 12 September 2024
Radisson Blu
Livingston
Zambia
Theme: Smart Cities in Africa for the 21st Century
Library
Urban Land Conflicts and Evictions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Reports & Research
August, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean
The Latin American and Caribbean Urban CSO Cluster, part of the Global Land Tools Network (GTLN), together with Habitat for Humanity’s Solid Ground Campaign and the Land Portal Foundation, launched an online debate on Urban Land Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean in January 2017. Responding to the common interest to make information easy to access and flow to boost collaboration among stakeholders as a critical basis to improve land governance.
Affordable land and housing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Journal Articles & Books
February, 2011
Latin America and the Caribbean
Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region were the first in the developing world to go through rapid urbanization. Today, the region is the second most urbanized region in the world. This urbanization process has been accompanied by sharp social contrasts and economic disparities, a buoyant informal housing and land development process and increased local democracy and municipal autonomy, coupled with active social urban movements. This makes the Latin America and Caribbean region a unique landscape in the study of land and housing for the poor.
Metropolitan Governance: A Framework for Capacity Assessment. Guidance Notes and Toolbox
Manuals & Guidelines
February, 2012
Global
UN-Habitat and GIZ have developed the Metropolitan Capacity Assessment Methodology (MetroCAM) as a joint contribution to implement urban sustainable development agendas and bring them to the metropolitan scale. It complements the Unpacking Metropolitan Governance series.
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