Regional urban development

These include assessments of the housing sector, land regulations and registration, labour intensive urban work programmes and national housing and urban development policies.

Cultural Heritage A Tool for Urban Development

Knowledge for Urban Development

Role of Urban Centres in Regional Development

Arab Urban Development Institute, Saudi Arabia

Municipal funds to support sustainable urban development could be established.

Public investment regulations favouring urban rural development

What Zipcar does is we park cars throughout dense urban areas for members to reserve, by the hour and by the day, instead of using their own car.

Estrategia, Centro de Investigación y Acción para el Desarollo Urbano, Peru

7. The challenge of sustainable development is a challenge of urban settlements.

Like little puffy clouds with faces.

Urban settlements will become the primary place for the struggle for development.

A background of lavish greenery

The poor were seen as an important resource which could be tapped by labour and employment intensive development strategies.

(p) Employment intensive shelter strategies

These urban poor communities are always threatened with demolition to give way for development projects .

Its view is that, historically, urban issues have been marginalized in the development agenda.

Global Youth Congress Opening Ceremony Emerging Partnerships in Urban Youth Development

(d) Urban environment global implications, strategies for sustainable development, provision of infrastructure and basic services

It relied on modern and environmentally sound techniques in the planning of urban development and construction of housing which met rigorous quality standards in rural and urban areas.

UN Habitat also signed agreements with the Asian Development Bank, the Inter American Development Bank, and the African Development Bank for joint projects and programmes for water, sanitation, housing and urban development, focusing on improving the living conditions of the urban poor.

But then we looked at recent urban development, and we noticed that this is like a Shanghai street, 30 years ago.

Human and social development (public health, HIV AIDS, cultural diversity, urban safety).

There was support for the need to promote balanced urban and rural development and to create jobs in rural areas.

Urban development promoting jobs, upgrading slums and developing alternatives to new slum formation

As the largest of the urban centres in the country development in Port Vila is far in advance of developments in the provinces and this tendency for developments in the provinces lagging behind the capital is a continuing concern.

A few days ago, heavy snow came down in Seoul.

They offer a pleasant respite from the high density development around them.

We'll swing north through heavy jungle. Who's gonna lead the way?

On the contrary, the reconstruction process can create jobs immediately after the end of conflict, especially in labour intensive reconstruction and public works projects, such as the refurbishment of housing, commercial infrastructure, feeder roads and water management systems, all of which are urgently needed for any reconstruction and can help jump start the economy.

Canada is an energy intensive country because of unique characteristics such as a low population density, large distances between urban centres, cold climate, relatively affluent lifestyles and a reliance on energy intensive economic activities.

There were three plenary meetings, partners' dialogues on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic dialogues on urban poor, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services and urban disasters and reconstruction.

The digital mammogram was read as normal and shows lots of dense tissue, but the MBI shows an area of intense uptake, which correlated with a two centimeter tumor.

To get urbanization right, policymakers must take urgent action to build sustainable cities.

Finally, e tail could shape China s urban development and transform leisure activities.

Sustainable urban development (access to basic services such as water and sanitation, waste management, transport and energy urban planification).

(a) Advisory services on upgrading and revitalizing secondary settlements and deteriorated urban areas and promotion of integrated human settlement development

We also have placed emphasis on the importance of environmentally sound urban development in line with the objectives of the Cairo Programme of Action.

The Forum consisted of dialogues among partners on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic discussions on urban poverty, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services, and urban disasters and reconstruction.

(xi) What has been done to institutionalize a participatory approach to sustainable urban development, based on a continuous dialogue between the actors involved in urban development (the public sector, private sector and communities), especially women and indigenous people

Since 1935 urban development has claimed as much of the Swiss landscape as it did during the previous 2,000 years.

Staff members involved in the Sustainable Cities Programme in the Urban Development Branch participated in the campaigns in the Philippines and Brazil.

The dialogue concluded that the establishment of property rights, transparency and public accountability are essential to urban development and revitalization.

The obvious link between population, development and environment called for a concerted approach to both urban and rural development.