This study uses a spatially-explicit land-use/land-cover (LULC) modeling approach to model and map the future (2016–2030) LULC of the area surrounding the Laguna de Bay of Philippines under three different scenarios: ‘business-as-usual’, ‘compact development’, and ‘high sprawl’ scenarios. The Laguna de Bay is the largest lake in the Philippines and an important natural resource for the population in/around Metro Manila.

Urban expansion and its ecological footprint increases globally at an unprecedented scale and consequently, the importance of urban greenery assessment grows. The diversity and quality of urban green spaces (UGS) and human well-being are tightly linked, and UGS provide a wide range of ecosystem services (e.g., urban heat mitigation, stormwater infiltration, food security, physical recreation).

One of the major consequences of expansive urban growth is the degradation and loss of productive agricultural land and agroecosystem functions. Four landscape metrics—Percentage of Land (PLAND), Mean Parcel Size (MPS), Parcel Density (PD), and Modified Simpson’s Diversity Index (MSDI)—were calculated for 1 km × 1 km cells along three 50 km-long transects that extend out from the Adelaide CBD, in order to analyze variations in landscape structures. Each transect has different land uses beyond the built-up area, and they differ in topography, soils, and rates of urban expansion.

• There is an accute lack of well-located urban housing that is adequate, secure, and affordable. The global affordable housing gap is currently estimated at 330 million urban households and is forecast to grow by more than 30 percent to 440 million households, or 1.6. billion people, by 2025.

Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.

These are:

1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;

Cette journée de réflexion a été consacrée à la sécurisation de l’accès au sol et à l’habitat dans les villes du Sud, et notamment aux marges de celles-ci, dans les quartiers dits précaires ou informels. Elle s’inscrit dans la continuité des débats initiés lors de la 3e conférence mondiale des Nations unies sur le logement et le développement urbain durable (Habitat III), qui s’est tenue à Quito en 2016.

La présente modifie les dispositions des articles 1, 3, et 7 de la loi n° 2013-47 du 1er novembre 2013, relative aux dispositions dérogatoires concernant les procédures de changement de vocation des terres agricoles, de déclassement des terrains relevant du domaine forestier de l’Etat et de l’aménagement et de l’urbanisation des terrains, situés à l’extérieur des zones couvertes par des plans d’aménagement et affectés pour l’exécution du programme spécifique pour le logement social et à la création des zones industrielles et la poursuite de l’application des procédures dérogatoires qu’elle

Article 13 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Article 13. Flora and fauna management companies. 1. Firms handling green spaces and plantations must have specialists who, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 12 (1) of this Law, would be entitled to carry out planting, growing trees and shrub pruning, protecting against diseases and pests plantations, lawns and flower beds. 2. State-owned car parks are protected and maintained by state road maintenance companies. 3.

La présente loi fixe le cadre juridique général de l’Aménagement du Territoire national dans une perspective de développement durable. A ce titre, elle s’applique à toutes les opérations relatives à l’occupation de l’espace, à l’affectation ou à la répartition équilibrée des populations, des activités, des infrastructures, des équipements et des services sur le territoire national.

This Regional Legislative Decree, consisting of 171 articles divided into nine Chapters, establishes the general bases of the Public Policy for Land, Regional Territorial Planning and Urbanism within the Autonomous Region of Madeira. This Regional Legislative Decree under Law n. 31/2014, of May 30, defines the regional system for the territorial management.

As we turn the page on MDGs to SDGs, the unprecedented proliferation of slums and informal settlements, and a chronic lack of adequate housing, continues to be amongst the major challenges of urbanization. Slums, informal settlements and inadequate housing remain the visible manifestations of poverty and inequality in cities. Inadequate housing complements the measurement of slums, particularly in the developed world, in order not to leave anyone behind.

Cities function in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner only when private and public spaces work in a symbiotic relation to enhance each other. Public space generates equality, however in the past decades it has been drastically been reduced. Inadequate, poorly designed, or privatized public spaces generate exclusion and marginalization.