The world is undergoing massive urbanization: now topping three billion of the world's six billion people and projected to increase to four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within twenty-five years. The impacts and development challenges posed by historic shift are of equal magnitude and include growing slums; lack of access to adequate water, sanitation and utilities; challenges to transport, employment, education; and dramatic effects on human well being and the environment.
The world is undergoing massive urbanization: now topping three billion of the world's six billion people and projected to increase to four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within twenty-five years. The impacts and development challenges posed by historic shift are of equal magnitude and include growing slums; lack of access to adequate water, sanitation and utilities; challenges to transport, employment, education; and dramatic effects on human well being and the environment.
Goran Tanerfeldt, Architect SAR/MSA, is a senior advisor on urban development with more than forty years of international experience and has been the initiator and head of the Urban Division of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Per Ljung is Chairman and CEO of PM Global Infrastructure, a firm that specializes in infrastructure reform and financing, and he has been head of the World Bank's operational division dealing with urban development in North Africa and the Middle East as well as chief of its central unit for policy development and research in urban development.
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Part I, AN URBANIZING WORLD Urban growth continues Understanding urbanization Urban-rural linkages Part II, URBAN POVERTY Nature of urban poverty Who are the poor? Earning a living Part III, CITIES AND TOWNS FACING PROBLEMS Slums, favelas, shantytowns Environment and health Development obstacles Urban challenges in the transition countries Part IV, MANAGING URBAN GROWTH Critical issues Governance Urban management Improving municipal finances Enhancing service delivery Creating functioning housing finance services Enabling a livelihood Key areas in pro-poor urban development Part V, THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION Rationale for support to urban development Policy framework Objective and approaches Strategic focus Funding needs A final word
Part I, AN URBANIZING WORLD Urban growth continues Understanding urbanization Urban-rural linkages Part II, URBAN POVERTY Nature of urban poverty Who are the poor? Earning a living Part III, CITIES AND TOWNS FACING PROBLEMS Slums, favelas, shantytowns Environment and health Development obstacles Urban challenges in the transition countries Part IV, MANAGING URBAN GROWTH Critical issues Governance Urban management Improving municipal finances Enhancing service delivery Creating functioning housing finance services Enabling a livelihood Key areas in pro-poor urban development Part V, THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION Rationale for support to urban development Policy framework Objective and approaches Strategic focus Funding needs A final word
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