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OverviewSometimes it takes just one human being to tip the scales and change the course of history. In the year 2007, that human being will either move to a city or be born in one. Demographers watching urban trends will mark it as the moment the world entered a new urban millennium, a period in which, for the first time in history, the majority of the world's people will live in cities. The year 2007 will also see the number of slum dwellers in the world cross the one billion mark - when one in every three city residents will live in inadequate housing with no or few basic services. Although poverty remains a primarily rural phenomenon, urban poverty is becoming a severe, pervasive - and largely unacknowledged - feature of urban life. UN-HABITAT findings reflected in the State of the World's Cities Report show how inequality in access to service, housing, land, education, health care and employment opportunities within cities have socio-economic, environmental and political repercussions, including rising violence, urban unrest, environmental degradation and underemployment, all of which threaten to diminish any gains in income and poverty reduction. The findings reveal 'a tale of two cities within one city' and unfold a new urban reality, where slum dwellers die earlier, experience more hunger, have less education, have fewer chances of employment in the formal sector and suffer more from ill-health than the rest of the urban population. What comes out clearly in this Report is that slum formation is neither inevitable nor acceptable. 'Running the poor out of town' - through evictions or discriminatory practices - is not the answer: rather, helping the poor to become more integrated into the fabric of urban society is the only long-lasting and sustainable solution to the growing urbanization of poverty. Ultimately, as the developing world becomes more urban ad as the locus of poverty shifts to cities, the battle to achieve the Millennium Development Goals will have to be waged in the world's slums. Full Product DetailsAuthor: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Earthscan Ltd Edition: 2006/2007 ed. Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 0.930kg ISBN: 9781844073795ISBN 10: 1844073793 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 01 July 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Awaiting stock Table of Contents* Part I: The Millennium Development Goals and Urban Sustainability * Part II: The State of the World's Slums * Part III: Where We Live Matters * Part IV: Policies and Practices that have Worked *ReviewsThe book forces us to think about the issues facing the urban poor whilst at the same time suggesting ways of improving. An accessible and important text which should be found in every institution library.' http://users.bigpond.net.au Author InformationThe United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. Nefise Bazoglu, Tanzib Chowdhury, Eduardo Lopez Moreno, Gora Mboup and Rasna Warah Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |