An Act to provide for registration of town planners, establishment of the Town Planners Registration Board, regulation of the standard, conduct and activities of town planners and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Throughout history, conflicts have been waged over land. Confrontations over territory, border disputes, occupation of the territory of one State by another, or grievances stemming from inequitable access to land invariably have dramatic consequences for human settlements. Never before has this been truer than with today?uss very different types of conflict which are increasingly taking place within nations.

This Regulation of the Council of the Amhara National Regional Government concerns the transfer of urban land by lease in accordance with the Urban Lands Lease Holding of the Revised Federal Proclamation No. 272/2004. The lease system shall be operative in specified cities. Urban landholdings which are meeting specified conditions shall be transferred into the lease system. The Directive No.

Este trabajo indaga por el sentido jurídico de la institución de las postergaciones de permisos urbanísticos consagrada en el artículo 117 de la Ley General de Vivienda y Urbanismo y su compatibilidad con la Constitución. Luego, plantea y demuestra su carácter excepcional. En este proceso revisa esclarece y precisa los requisitos formales y sustanciales que el texto legal y la Carta Fundamental exigen a la autoridad administrativa para decretar esta verdadera medida precautoria de carácter administrativo, que constriñe gravemente el derecho de propiedad.

This paper considers urban-rural location and education as the main causes of expenditure inequality and attempts to examine inequality changes associated with urbanization and educational expansion in Indonesia from 1996 to 2002, using Indonesian monthly household consumption expenditure data.

This publication is the second report of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE) to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. It contains follow-up information on eviction cases documented in the first report, 15 new cases, and a detailed analysis of the current global situation regarding forced evictions and successful counterstrategies, methodologies and tools to stop and prevent forced evictions.

This paper examines urban health in low- and middle-income countries, in relation to two sets of environmental issues:

persistent local environmental health burdens, and most notably the water, sanitation and housing deficiencies prevalent in the poor neighbourhoods of so many urban settlements
emerging global environmental burdens that will be experienced in urban areas, and most notably those associated with climate change

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. Based on a comprehensive analysis of poverty in Dhaka, it aims to provide the basis for an urban poverty reduction strategy for the Government of Bangladesh, local authorities, donors and NGOs. The study focuses on analysing the characteristics and dynamics of poverty, employment, land and housing, basic services, and crime and violence.