The Cities Alliance provides small grants that support the formulation of city development strategies and citywide slum upgrading initiatives.

The first is to plan retrofitting much more systemically at the metropolitan scale.

Emphasis has been placed on national polices for urban development, shelter and slum upgrading.

But today, finally, after economic reforms, and economic growth, I think the notion that cities are engines of economic growth, cities are engines of creativity, cities are engines of innovation, have finally been accepted.

We're building a new city next to this city look at that landscape.

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And that the city be called, not Rome, but the city of Commodus.

Majora Carter Greening the ghetto

How many cities are you going to build?

Urban retrofitting creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

Urban and agricultural frontier expansion have transformed surrounding environments in ways that generate new hazard patterns.

In order to improve housing conditions for the urban poor, the Government is proposing two programmes for the next five years urban renewal and public rental housing construction.

If we can change the dynamic, by first of all creating cities that are denser and more livable ...

Ellen Dunham Jones Retrofitting suburbia

Progress was made towards monitoring and promoting understanding of urban economic conditions and rural urban linkages, as well as monitoring and developing strategies and frameworks for improving urban self employment and livelihood for the urban poor.

235. In addition to the improvement of infrastructures, the Integrated Urban Development Programme (PDUI) is designed to create jobs and productive activities to provide the population with permanent resources.

They've bounded the city with a line.

Economic growth has also resulted in rising levels of urbanization.

Improving energy service provision to the poor in peri urban and urban areas

The plan aims at providing new communities and existing cities with improved infrastructure, services and public utilities.

And that directly connects to ideas of city making.

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HSP WUF 2 7 Dialogue on urban resources financing and mobilizing domestic capital for slum upgrading

Nature, city. Nothing changes.

In ten years our town will change a lot.

(f) Human values in improving urban water governance

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(c) Improving energy service provision to the poor in peri urban and urban areas.

Seminal research was undertaken in analysing urban economic conditions, rural urban linkages and effective strategies for improving urban self employment and livelihood for the urban poor.

Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what s possible in the metropolitan landscape.

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

Through Cities Alliance, one of UN Habitat's main partners in slum upgrading work is the World Bank.

But if it came over a city, an important city not that any city is more important than others, but some of them we depend on them more on the global economic basis that could do a huge amount of damage to us as a civilization.

Urban poor Urban resources Urban sustainability Urban services Urban disasters and reconstruction.

Urban cultures Urban realities Urban governance Urban renaissance.

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In implementing the Habitat Agenda, the Bank apos s efforts will focus on supporting the provision of basic urban services, urban environmental improvement, strengthening urban finance and reducing urban poverty in developing countries.

In the area of urban development, the Government focuses on the establishment of efficient land markets, the strengthening of local authorities, improving urban transport and achieving a rational use of natural resources in urban areas.

But it's important to note that all of this retrofitting is not occurring just bulldozers are coming and just plowing down the whole city.

If cities are to drive emerging market countries towards a better future, their governments must ensure that urban housing, infrastructure, and services stay abreast of demand. After all, an investment friendly business environment requires adults who are fit to work and children who are fit to learn.

A large programme (1993 97) to rehabilitate urban infrastructure, improve environmental conditions and to strengthen urban management capacity is being implemented in the two main cities.

Habitat also provides the secretariat of the Urban Environment Forum, a global network of cities and international programmes committed to improving the urban environment.

Urban poor improving the lives of slum dwellers

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.

Events in cities such as Harare demonstrated that, while it might be legitimate and often necessary to upgrade dilapidated urban spaces, it was of utmost importance to use modalities that respected human rights.