Internet Resources  

  • International Geographical Union / Union Géographique Internationale
    http://www.igu-net.org/

  • "World Urbanization Prospects: The 2003 Revision" (Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations Secretariat)
    http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wup2003/2003WUPHighlights.pdf pdf document


  • "The State of the World's Cities" Report
    http://www.unchs.org/Istanbul+5/statereport.htm


  • Home of Geography / Maison de la Géographie
    http://www.homeofgeography.org

  • IGU Commission on Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow
    http://www.cities-of-tomorrow.com

  • Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative
    http://www.earthquakesandmegacities.org/
    or http://www-megacities.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de

  • Radix - Radical Interpretations of Disaster
    http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/geography_research/radix

  • Urban 21
    http://www.urban21.de/
    http://www.laneta.apc.org/hic-al/cartaseng_7.html:
    Urban 21 Recommendations versus Local Heroes 21 Comments

  • UN Human Settlements Programme
    http://www.unhabitat.org/
          Publications Catalogue
    http://www.unhabitat.org/register/shop.asp

  • United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS)
    http://www.unchs.org/
    http://www.unchs.org/discussion/
       Online Discussion Global Strategies for an Urban Future
    http://www.unchs.org/unchs/english/hagenda/index.htm:
       The Habitat Agenda - Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements, United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in Istanbul, Turkey from 3 to14 June 1996
    http://www.unchs.org/Istanbul+5/:
       Second Session of the Preparatory Commission for Instanbul +5
    http://www.unchs.org/scp/:
       Sustainable Cities Programme: a joint UNCHS (UN Centre for Human Settlements) and UNEP (UN Environment Programme) programme
    http://www.unchs.org/uef/:
       Urban Environment Forum
    http://www.bestpractices.org/ :
       Best Practices for Human Settlements

  • www.megacities.nl
       with seven Megacities lectures:
       1. Megacities, World Cities and Global Cities, by Peter Hall, February 1997
       2. Urban Economy and Fading Distance, by Saskia Sassen, November 1998
       3. Identity in the City, by Deyan Sudjic, November 1999
       4. Possible Urban Worlds, by David Harvey, November 2000
       5. The Fragmented City and the Role of the Architect, by Lord Richard Rogers, November 2001
       6. Urbanising Singapore, Optimising Resources, by Dr Liu Tai Ker (Singapore), November 2002
       7. Megacities and the Welfare State, by Richard Sennett, November 2003

  • Istanbul +5
    http://www.istanbul5.org/:
       Istanbul + 5 - Special Session of the UN General Assembly for an Overall Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda, New York 6-8 June 2001

  • "Earth Summit" 1992
    http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html:
       UN Conference on Environment and Development - "The Earth Summit" - 3-14 June 1992, Rio de Janeiro

  • "World Summit on Sustainable Development" 2002
    http://www.earthsummit2002.org/:
       "The World Summit on Sustainable Development", Johannesburg, S.A., 2002

  • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
    http://www.unep.org/

  • United Nations Statistics Division
    http://unstats.un.org/unsd/
    http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wup2001/wup2001dh.pdf:
    The "World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights" (pdf)

  • Natural Hazards Center
    http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/publist.html:
       The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder (founded by Gilbert F. White)
    http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/litbase/hazlit.htm:
       The Hazards literature data base

  • World Health Organization (WHO)
    http://www.who.int/en
    with http://www.who.int/library:
       WHO Library and information networks

  • Worldbank
    http://www.worldbank.org/:
       some projects to 'global cities'

  • The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
    http://www.iclei.org/:
       International action for local initiatives.

  • The European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign
    http://www.sustainable-cities.org/
    http://www.sustainable-cities.org/sub9.html:
       documents and publications from specific organisations and networks

  • Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC)
    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/index.html
       Professor Peter Taylor (with research focus: World Cities/Globalization)
    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb5.html
       The World according to GaWC: map of the new metageography
    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/citymap.html

  • Centre for Urban Technology
    http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cut/cutlinks.html:
    link list


  • Economic TeleDevelopment Forum - Links (especially: "globalization")
    http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/3896/links.html

  • University of Michigan
    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sdcamp/UP650,links.html:
       links to urban and planning topics

  • URBAN Management, Centre for Developing Cities (Asian megacities)
    http://cities.canberra.edu.au/

  • MOST Urban Issues: Urban development and governance
    http://www.unesco.org/most/most2.htm

  • GTZ Pilot Project "Rio+10"
    http://www.gtz.de/rioplus/

  • World Alliance of International Associations of Cities and Local Authorities
    http://www.waclac.org/paginas/Idx-aboutus.html

  • Megacities: Schreckbild oder Chance für die Entwicklungsländer?
    http://www1.kas.de/international/konferenz02-06-17/index.html

  • Policy Integration & Industrial Transformation towards Sustainable Urban Energy Use for Cities in Asia: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
    http://www.iges.or.jp/

  • Johannesburg Summit 2002
    http://www.earthsummit2002.org/
    http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/

  • GaWC: Globalization and World Cities
    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/

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