Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region were the first in the developing world to go through rapid urbanisation. Today, the region is the second most urbanised region in the world.

The State of the African Cities 2010 goes above and beyond the first report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa.

This paper argues that migration is better defined as an adaptive response to socio-economic, cultural, political and environmental transformations, in most instances closely linked to the need to diversify income sources and reduce dependency on natural resources.

En el presente trabajo de investigación se analizan los fenómenos migratorios actuales en dos regiones de Bolivia:

This paper considers the extent to which the indicators used for measuring poverty in Argentina provide an accurate portrayal of poverty in Buenos Aires and inform policies to reduce it. Three points are highlighted.

The practice of forcibly evicting people from their homes and settlements is a growing global phenomenon and represents a crude violation of one of the most elementary principles of the right to adequate housing as defined in the Habitat Agenda and international instruments.

This paper discusses ideas and methodologies on reducing urban poverty, paying particular attention to the changes that can be triggered by the practice of community savings.

The paper attempts a stock taking of urbanization in the post colonial period in India and critically examines the scenarios projected by international and national agencies.

This paper describes the impact of gradual environmental change on the livelihoods of people in two very different areas of Bolivia: the Northern Potosi region, in the Andean highlands, and the municipality of San Julian, in the tropical eastern lowlands of the country.

China was still a predominantly rural society as late as the 1970s. Beginning with the economic reforms of the late 1970s, however, the last three decades have witnessed an extraordinary turnaround in China’s perspective on urbanization, as well as massive urban growth.

Housing finance remains a major obstacle to home ownership in countries such as Malawi, especially among low-income earners.

The challenge presented by climate change is, by its nature, global. The populations of the Mexican Caribbean, the focus of this book, are faced by everyday decisions not unlike those in the urban North.