Reports

A number of international development agencies, consultancies and think tanks publish annual or biennial reports that provide data and information on issues relating to urbanization and planning. Please click on the titles in the table below to download the reports:

Publisher	Title	Year
African Development Bank	Tracking Africa’s progress in figures	2014
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy	Making room for a planet of cities	2011
ONE	The 2013 DATA Report: Financing the fight for Africa’s transformation	2013
ONE	The 2014 DATA Report: Fighting poverty and financing Africa’s infrastructure	2014
PennDesign and Penn Institute for Urban Research	The Penn Resolution: Educating urban designers for post-carbon cities	2011
UN-Habitat	Infrastructure for economic development and poverty reduction in Africa	2011
UN-Habitat, Earthscan	State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011: Bridging the urban divide	2008
UN-Habitat	State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013: Prosperity of cities	2012
UN-Habitat	The State of African Cities 2008: A framework for addressing urban challenges in Africa	2008
UN-Habitat	The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, inequality and urban land markets	2010
UN-Habitat	The State of African Cities 2014: Re-imagining sustainable urban transitions	2014
UN-Habitat	The state of planning in Africa: An overview	2014
UN-Habitat	Unleashing the economic potential of agglomeration in African cities	2013
UN-Habitat, Earthscan	Global Report on Human Settlements 2009: Planning sustainable cities	2009
UN-Habitat, Earthscan	Global Report on Human Settlements 2011: Cities and climate change	2011
UN-Habitat, Routledge	Global Report on Human Settlements 2013: Planning and design for sustainable mobility	2013
United Nations	Guiding principles on security of tenure for the urban poor	2014
United Nations Development Programme	Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a food secure future	2012
United Nations Development Programme	Human Development Report 2013: The rise of the South: Human progress in a diverse world	2013
United Nations Development Programme	Human Development Report 2014: Sustaining human progress: Reducing vulnerabilities and building resilience	2014

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