Blog essay outlining innovative and visionary community recovery planning in response to the April 20, 2004 tornado in North Utica, Illinois. Includes interesting details about effort to bring together diverse funding sources to support the recovery plan.
Descirption of UN-Habitat's use of revolving funds through Local Finance Facilities to support housing development and reconstruction.
Website with tools and resources for city management, governance, and finance solutions in urban environments to promote local economic growth, health, environmental sustainability, security, and access to housing, infrastructure and services
Review of the Kabul Area Shelter and Settlement (KASS) Project. "By providing shelters in an urban environment, existing resources were able to be consolidated and improved, people were able to live in areas close to employment and family, and not relegated to satellite suburbs or cities where they could feel displaced and separate from the community".
Briefing paper which highlights key lessons from past urban responses to guide local authorities, national governments, international agencies, the private sector, and community organisations in approaching the challenges of addressing and responding to disaster risks in urban environments.
Un assemblement des projets et évaluations de reconstruction post crises faites par Groupe URD dans les environnements urbains.
Report which identifies 7 drivers and 6 challenges relevant to shaping innovation and competitiveness that are shared across the built environment industry and our cities more widely.
An article by Homeless International about the CLIFF which provides venture capital and other financial products directly to organisations of the urban poor, to support community-led slum upgrading schemes conceived in partnership with city authorities.
Collection of resources on land tenure including an extensive series on Islamic land and property research.
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