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Development Contrasts in Human Settlements -- 2. Urban Impacts of Globalization Globalization, Urban Planning and Democracy -- 3. Framing Normative Policy Platforms -- Part II: Emerging Approaches to Urban Governance and Politics -- 4. The Changing Context and Directions of Urban Governance -- 5. Politics of the Global City: Claiming rights to urban spaces -- Part III: Changes in Housing Finance and Shelter Delivery Systems -- 6. The Developing Countries -- 7. The Countries with Economies in Transition -- 8. The Industrialized Countries -- Part IV: Developments in the Urban Environment and Infrastructure -- 9. Urban Health in the Developing Countries -- 10. Assessments of the Urban Environment: Water Supply and Sanitation Services -- 11. Impacts of Recent Trends on Urban Transport -- 12. Energy Demands and Consumption -- 13. Decentralization and Urban Infrastructure Management Capacity -- Part V: Ensuring Development Prospects -- 14. Building Capacity -- 15. Strengthening Post-disaster Reconstruction of Human Settlements -- Part VI: Building a Common Future -- 16. Adequate Shelter for All -- 17. Sustaining Human Settlement Development: Strategic Foci -- Epilogue: Liveability of Cities in a Globalizing World -- References -- Background Papers -- Part VII: Statistical Annex -- Country Level data -- City Level Data -- Index. 330 $aCities in a Globalizing World presents a comprehensive review of the world's cities and analyses the positive and negative impacts on human settlements of the global trends towards social and economic integration and the rapid changes in information and communication technologies. In this Global Report, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) draws on specially commissioned and contributed background papers from more than 80 leading international specialists. The report focuses on recent trends in human settlements and their implications for poverty, inequity and social polarization. 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