UN-RMIT partnership tackles problems in Pacific cities

摘要

In a collaboration that will see more detailed and effective 'social mapping' of cities in the Asia-Pacific region, UN-Habitat - the United Nations' agency for urbanisation and human settlements - has named RMIT's Global Cities Research Institute in Melbourne as its Asia-Pacific region research partner. As home to more than half the world's population, cities have become hubs for the economic and social processes that generate wealth and opportunity. But they have also become centres of disease, crime, pollution and poverty, especially the growing urban slum areas in countries such as Papua New Guinea (PNG) and other Pacific island nations in the region.