Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements, UN Habitat

摘要

The pretext for this publication is the daunting prospect of the world's urban population increasing by another 53 million per annumrnover the next 20 years. Most of this increase will occur in Asia and Africa due to the rural-urban drift, while in Europe and North America urban populations will by and large remain stabilised.rnThis landmark publication addresses the issue of how to accommodate this increase. If you are thinking that this is a great opportunity for the west to demonstrate to the developing world the merits of UK masterplan-ning and urban design, Garden Cities, New Urbanism, etc, forget it.