Design Guide, Overview | 2014Descriptive resource
Streets as tools for urban transformation in slums: A street-led approach to citywide slum upgrading
The focus is on the streets and urban layout of settlements, as the drivers of transformation and regeneration. It reviews citizens’ involvement in participatory planning and re-emphasises the importance of mapping through participatory enumeration and locally acceptable forms of social and physical...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
Toolkit | 2014Action oriented
The Urban Health Index: A handbook for its calculation and use
In depth guide to statistical calculations for Urban Health Index and the reasoning behind them. Subtitled 'A VERSATILE APPROACH TO MEASURING AND MAPPING HEALTH INEQUALITIES'. The UHI provides a flexible approach to selection, amalgamation, and presentation of health data. Its purpose is to furnish...
Language(s): EN, Others | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: WHO
Design Guide | 2014Descriptive resource
Providing health intelligence to meet local needs: a practical guide to serving local and urban communities through public health observatories
This practical guide makes the case for the use of local public health observatories. It goes through key considerations for developing one, as well as ways to ensure effective functioning. It includes successful case studies of the London Health Observatory and the City of Juárez Observatory. The...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: WHO Centre for Health Development (Kobe Japan)
Evidence | 2014Descriptive resource
Steering urban growth: governance, policy and finance
"We live in an urban age. Over half the world’s population now lives in urban areas, while the urban population is expected to reach 60% by 2030. At the same time, the importance of cities for national economic growth and climate change continues to increase. Three groups of cities will be particularly...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: Floater G., Rode P. ,Friedel B., Robert A., The New Climate Economy
Overview | 2014Descriptive resource
The Evolution of National Urban Policies. A Global Overview
"The purpose of this publication is to review the experience of national urban policies (NUPs) in selected countries around the world in order to draw broad lessons that would inform other countries interested in formulating or implementing their own policies. Background: The high-level lessons emerging...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
