Global State of National Urban Policy 2024
<p>With global population increasingly concentrating in urban areas, cities are driving national economic growth, while also grappling with challenges such as inequalities, affordable housing shortages,
Urbanisation
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Too much noise
There has been an alarming rise in noise pollution in most Indian cities. This can be attributed to the increase in number of vehicles, urbanisation and industrialisation. The Central Pollution
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Environmental status report of Jaipur city
Today environmental pollution has assumed serious proportions and become a big problem because the built-in balance has been disturbed by the industrialization and the philosophy of conquest of nature through exploration and exploitation of natural resources by man to the advantage of mankind. This report contains the Environmental status of Jaipur city, Rajasthan, India.
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Traffic and transportation policies and strategies in urban areas in India: final report
The transportation modes in Indian cities are multifarious with varying capacity and widely varying sizes and speeds.
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Sands of time
Large portions of cultivable land may be lost to the desert in northwest China by end 1997
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In a swelter over shelter
Besides highlighting some of the enduring concerns faced by today s urban planners, what else has the Istanbul city summit Habitat II actually achieved?
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Citywards ho!
Out of more than half the world population that are wannabe urban Bourbons, larger number of women and children will have to rough it out
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City scan
Will the future city, marked by responsible governance and a concerned citizenry, be able to address the problems dogging the world's urban centres?
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Shortages of plenty
Local resource depletion started when hunter gatherer humans grew roots
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Ephemeral Eden
The city of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka with its magnificent gardens survived for just 18 years
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Road to chaos
The beginning of uncontrolled consumerism is the end of a planned city