The United Nations Recently Inaugurated A New Category Of City Size: Metacities. What Is A Metacity?
2006/7
Un-HABITAT
The Millennium Development Goals and Urban Sustainability: 30 Years of Shaping the Habitat Agenda
STATE OF THE WORLD'S
cities
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Sometimes it takes just one man to tip the scales and change the class of history. At some point in the yr 2007, that human being will either motion to a metropolis or be built-in in one. The event itself volition become unnoticed only demographers watching urban trends will mark it as the moment when the world entered a new urban millennium, a period in which, for the first time in history, the bulk of the world'south people volition live in cities. The yr 2007 will also run across the number of slum dwellers in the world cross the ane billion mark – when one in every iii city residents volition live in a slum. Although poverty remains a primarily rural phenomenon, large sections of the urban population in developing countries are suffering from extreme levels of deprivation that are often fifty-fifty more debilitating than those experienced by the rural poor. United nations-HABITAT analyses reflected in this Report show that the incidence of disease and bloodshed is much higher in slums than in not-slum urban areas, and in some cases, such as HIV prevalence and other wellness indicators, is equal to or even higher than in rural areas. These disparities are oftentimes not reflected in national statistics, which mask the deprivation experienced in poor urban neighbourhoods. The findings in this Report reveal "a tale of two cities within one metropolis", where not-slum populations relish good wellness and education, while slum communities suffer from both poor health and lack of opportunities. This edition of the
State of the Globe'due south Cities Written report
provides an overview of a range of issues that link cities, slums and the Millennium Development Goals. It makes clear that the global fight against poverty – encapsulated in the Millennium Development Goals – is heavily dependent on how well cities perform. The Study highlights three inter-related bug: •The Millennium Development Goals provide an apt framework for linking the opportunities provided by cities with improved quality of life; •The achievement of the Goals heavily depends on governments' chapters to speed up progress and reverse current trends on slum formation; •The achievement of the Goals depends onorth governments' capacity to speed up progress in reducing urban poverty and inequality and in reversing current trends in slum germination.
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