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    Secure land rights for all

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2008
    Secure land rights are important for development and poverty reduction and the greatest challenges for providing such rights are in urban, peri-urban areas, and the most productive rural areas.
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    Cities farming for the future: urban agriculture for green and productive cities

    RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2006
    The book aims to enhance understanding of the role urban agriculture can play in promoting inclusive, green and productive cities and provide ways to facilitate safe and sustainable urban agriculture. The publication draws on contributions by the International Network on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF Foundation) and from others who have collaborated with RUAF.
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    Understanding your local economy: a resource guide for cities

    Cities Alliance, 2007
    Drawing from fifteen case studies, this guide offers tools and best practices for cities to undertake effective economic assessments, and in turn, to develop better and stronger strategies to support job creation and enable sustainable and inclusive growth.Authors provide a step by step guide to complete a local economy assessment. Steps include: 
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    A methodology of selection: good practices on crime prevention through environmental design in Latin America

    Eldis Document Store, 2007
    Many Latin American countries continue to experience a high incidence of crime and violence, especially in urban areas. While policy makers have tended to focus more on arrest and punishment than on prevention, planners and architects have long recognized the connection between spatial design and safety.
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    Dhaka: improving living conditions for the urban poor

    World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2007
    Dhaka is the fastest growing mega-city in the world, attracting an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 mostly poor migrants a year. This paper argues that urgent measures are required to address the vital needs of the city's rapidly growing urban poor.
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    Pro-poor growth in the city: are City Development Strategies the answer?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    City Development Strategies (CDSs) could provide the framework required to link poor communities and planners responsible for city governance and service delivery. Launched in 1999 by Cities Alliance, CDSs aim to bring poor and vulnerable groups into urban planning and policy development processes.
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    Enabling sustainable urban road transport in China: a policy and institutional perspective

    Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2003
    The study links the major unsustainabilities of China’s urban road transport with those deficiencies in urban road transport planning and management and China’s auto industry policy.Road transportation systems are often characterized by low efficiency, heavy congestion and high environmental pollution.
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    Recapturing the streets: a vision of equitable and sustainable urban transport

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why have planners failed to provide safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable transport for the two billion residents of developing country cities? Is transport policy too dependent on Northern technical and economic reasoning? What can be done to halt the export of the Western model of automobile dependence to developing countries?
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    Fighting motor madness: rethinking urban transport through a poverty lens

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How should planners respond to increased travel demand in the developing world’s burgeoning cities? Can transport policies contribute to poverty reduction? What is the impact of government expenditure on transport infrastructure? What are the health and education outcomes of improvements / deterioration in transport conditions?
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    Left on the back burner: time to put energy onto the urban planning agenda?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Could more efficient use of energy have an impact on poverty alleviation? What changes in energy use patterns are likely to generate the greatest benefits for the poor? What are the constraints on the uptake of energy efficiency measures? Can they be overcome?

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