The State of the World’s Cities: 2004/2005
Posted: October 3rd, 2004 | 1 Comment »Via the Scout Report: The United Nations Human Settlements Programme published the first State of the World Cities report in 2001, and just recently released this updated version, The State of the World’s Cities: 2004/2005, which offers insight and critical analysis of the state of the world’s major urban areas and how they are changing, both for good and for ill. The various sections include such provocative topics as “Ticking Time-Bombs: Low-income settlements”, “Africa’s Secret Modernist City”, and “Crimes of the Child”.
[...] with quantitative data such as in Richard Florida’s work and the indexes of Mercer, and the UN’s State of the World’s Cities, Quality of “Business” Life. Character, identity and uniqueness are also crucial [...]