Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007

Type

Book

Authors

Un-Habitat

ISBN 10

184407479X

ISBN 13

9781844074792

Tags

Urban & Land Use Planning, Housing & Urban Development, Urban Planning & Development, Disaster Relief, Violence in Society, Urban, Globalization, City Planning & Urban Development, Architecture, Law, Public Policy, Sociology

Description

Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide trends with respect to each of these threats, paying particular attention to their underlying causes and impacts, as well as to the good policies and best practices that have been adopted at the city, national and international levels in order to address these threats. The report adopts a human security perspective, concerned with the safety and security of people rather than of states, and highlights issues that can be addressed through appropriate urban policy, planning, design and governance. - from Amzon

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