Examines aspects such as urban management and equity; managing urban land; the provision of housing and housing technology; environmental management and infrastructure; and sustainable development of human settlements.

This paper discusses the relation between urban norms and informality and presents some evidence for Brazil using a quasi-experimental approach. Using a theoretical framework that relates the supply of house elasticity ...

Deals with achieving social equity and alleviating urban poverty; the productivity of human settlements for improving the quality of life; improving the environment in human settlements; governability and participation; ...

Explores how the regional situation has developed during the 1990s which respect to the broad thematic areas. Reviews settlement trends in Latin America and the Caribbean on the basis of statistics and analysis recently ...

Rapid urbanisation in Santiago de Chile has led to a large number of informal settlements on the periphery of the city which from an initial common origin, now exhibit very different degrees of social and physical ...