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 ...

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; ...

This paper explains why, two years before the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, urban dwellers living in poverty in Mexico and Cuernavaca continue having the informal land market as the fundamental route ...

Objective. To identify residential parameters that characterize the physical and social environment in Chile's irregular settlements, and to construct typologies that will allow to develop profiles with those distinctive ...

This report focuses on urban poverty and habitat precariousness in the Caribbean countries with an emphasis on current and former British territories. Chapter 1 looks at the different sets of related indicators. Firstly, ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has reached almost every corner of the world. Despite the historical development, approval, and distribution of vaccines in some countries, non-pharmaceutical interventions will remain an essential ...

Abstract One year and a half after the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) held in Istanbul, the present document aims to assess the progress made on the implementation of the Regional Plan of Action ...

La popuesta de trabajo analiza la evolución de la pobreza urbana en las ciudades capitales del nordeste, en forma comparada y atendiendo a las especificidades de desarrollo socioeconómico, locacionales y de estructura ...