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Urban Development Strategies in the Mediterranean: Context, Challenges and Perspectives
The study on Urban Development Strategies in the Mediterranean is a first step in this direction to coordinate efforts to bring concrete solutions to city strategic planning. The ongoing, unprecedent

Author: Unknown
Organisation: Conference on Urban Development Strategies in the Mediterranean
Publish Date: March 2011
Urban food security and climate change: A system of flows
Highlights the need to consider urban food security as a different development challenge to rural food security with a different set of relationships to climate change. Identifies key elements of urb

Author: Jane Battersby
Organisation: University of Cape Town
Publish Date: 2010
Urban Food Security and the Urban Food Policy Gap
The right to food and the challenge of food insecurity are being increasingly articulated in public statements of the ANC, DA, COSATU and other political players. However, while the right to food and

Author: Jane Battersby
Organisation: University of Cape Town
Publish Date: September 2012
Urban Futures 2030: Urban Development and Urban Lifestyles of the Future
Visions of how cities should be built or transformed reflect the diversity of views and perspectives on how people will and should live in cities, since planning in any form always also pursues norma

Author: Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Organisation: Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Publish Date: January 2011
Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability
Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050,an unprecedented wave of urban growth.While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents,they will also face equally unpre

Author: Robert I. McDonald, Pamela Green, Deborah Balk, Balazs M. Fekete, Carmen Revenga, Megan Todd, Mark Montgomery
Organisation: PNAS, 6312–6317, April 12, 2011, vol. 108, no. 15
Publish Date: April 2011
Urban Population,Development and EnvironmentDynamics
The focus of this paper is on the dynamics of population, development and the environment in urban areas of low-income developing countries. In addition to drawing on the broader literature, this pap

Author: Alex de Sherbinin
Organisation: United Population Environment:UNESCO
Publish Date: 2007
Urban Poverty: A Global View
This paper provides an overview on what has been learned about urban poverty over the past decade with a focus on what is new and what the implications are for the World Bank going forward in an incr

Author: Judy L. Baker
Organisation: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank
Publish Date: 2008
Urban squatters save the world
Cities have always created wealth, and have always been a population sink. Still, a world now more than half urban and headed toward 80 percent urban by mid-century is something new in history.
Author: Stewart Brand
Organisation: Mckinsey on Society
Publish Date: No date
Urban sustainability in developing countries’ megacities: modelling and predicting future urban growth in Lagos
In the first part of the paper urban sustainability issues in African countries are considered with a focus on urban growth. The need for urban management tools that are able to provide prospective s

Author: Jose´ I. Barredo and Luca Demicheli
Organisation: Cities, Vol. 20, No. 5, p. 297–310, 2003
Publish Date: 2003
Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities
The urban world is shifting. Today only 600 urban centers generate about 60 percent of global GDP. While 600 cities will continue to account for the same share of global GDP in 2025, this group of 60

Author: Richard Dobbs, Sven Smit, Jaana Remes, James Manyika, Charles Roxburgh, Alejandra Restrepo
Organisation: McKinsey & Company
Publish Date: March 2011
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