Housing and homelessness

Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland.

How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing?

Despite the current recession, the frequency of second home ownership is still surprisingly high throughout the western world.

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

Today, millions of youth across the country do not have access to a stable home.

This publication addresses the extent to which social work curricula in Kenya prepares graduates to handle issues of poverty and social development, the specific knowledge and skills that they are equipped with an existing gaps therein.

Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development.

Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular.

Hay formas de la desigualdad que el coeficiente de Gini no puede mostrar.

A rising proportion of the global population are moving to cities in search of a better standard of living.

"La historia política de Colombia ha estado atravesada por un contexto de reiteradas confrontaciones bélicas.

El derecho al agua potable y el servicio público de acueducto necesitan criterios para analizar su constitucionalización, mediante la jurisprudencia.

La insurgencia, según David Harvey, invita al arquitecto a reconocer otros teatros diferentes a los propios y, por consiguiente, a descubrir el rico y diverso panorama de la ciudad informal, cuya autoformación representa un amplio espectro de prácticas y maneras de entender y de atenderla, muy oportunas para la innovación teórica.

A pesar de inversiones significativas y el desarrollo de una amplia gama de políticas públicas durante más de siete décadas, la marginalidad urbana persiste en muchas ciudades latinoamericanas.

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability of housing, or the lack thereof, going beyond conventional policy discussions to consider fundamental questions such as: What makes housing affordable and for whom is it affordable?

Myanmar's housing sector is struggling to cope with rapid urbanization, internal migration, and new demand from recent economic growth.

This publication explores strategies, mechanisms, and innovations applied by the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

The first edition of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Monitor tracks the development of the PPP business environment as well as the challenges of doing PPPs in nine of the developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB): Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

India needs to spend close to Rs43 trillion (about $646 billion) on infrastructure through to 2022.

This publication provides a standard compilation of supply and use tables (SUTs) for 19 economies in Asia and the Pacific to help them comply with the United Nations 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA) recommendations.

This is a pivotal period in Sri Lanka's economic development.

Electricity shortages in South Asia are adversely impacting the region's socioeconomic development.

The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds, of which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a major partner in Asia and the Pacific, delivering investments through six country programs (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, and Tonga) and one regional program for the Pacific.

Despite significant economic growth in Asia in recent decades, millions of people in rural Asia still lack access to electricity.

Good corporate governance practices reduce vulnerability to financial crises, reinforce property rights, reduce the cost of capital, and lead to greater capital market development.

Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward.

The 1997 Asian financial crisis hit the region and became a defining moment for Asia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The Asia and Pacific region experienced continued growth.

The Asia and Pacific region continued to grow despite a difficult external global environment.

When the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966, the Asia and Pacific region was undergoing a process of deep change.

The Climate Change Operational Framework 2017-2030 is intended to provide broad direction and guidance for enhancing resilience and strengthening climate actions in the operations and business processes of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has made advances in narrowing gender gaps in its labor market.

To help overcome remoteness, Pacific economies are looking to improve economic integration not only through ICT and transport network investments, but also by promoting greater competition and private investment.

Providing access to clean water continues to be a challenge for governments.

Infrastructure projects sometimes physically displace households and disrupt income sources and livelihoods.

This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed "e;urban villages"e; as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities.

The urban metabolism framework maps the activities of cities from their consumption of materials, the different activities associated with those processes, and the wastes produced.

Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow.

Playing blitz is one of the great joys in every chess player's life.

No matter how unconventional, irrational or even crazy an opening is, sooner or later every chess player will have to face it.

Everything you always wanted to know about world chess champion Bobby Fischer, complete with easily accessible examples of his chess playing style, in one compact and very readable volume.

The Sicilian Defence is Black's most popular reply to 1.

Grandmaster Larry Kaufman presents a very effective way for White to disrupt the plans and demolish the position of players on the black side of the popular Grunfeld Defence.

Learn how to attack in the sharpest lines of the most widely played chess opening!

They did it!

What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Anderssons Positional MasterpiecesOne of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example.

Es prioritario continuar revisando el problema social de la pobreza infantil en sus propuestas conceptuales (definiciones) y metodológicas de medición porque persisten relevantes desafíos de construcción de conocimiento específico sobre esta categoría social que es la infancia en situación de pobreza, pero también de comparabilidad de las mediciones en el tiempo y entre diferentes dominios.