Building sustainable towns and cities

UNFPA’s Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin.

Statement on the International Day of Older Persons by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA Executive Director.

Population ageing and urbanization are major global issues of the 21st century. While cities are growing, their share of residents aged 60 years and over is also rising. Rapid urbanization is challenging both national and local governments in developing inclusive and integrated cities.

Today, as we observe the International Day of...

U.S. Building Construction Market Databook 2020: Size by Value & Volume, Opportunities in Top 10 Cities, Risk Assessment  Yahoo Finance

>The National Housing Corporation (NHC) plans to construct two satellite towns on the outskirts of Arusha, the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) meeting was told here on Wednesday. The NHC regional manager for Arusha, Mr James Kisarika, named the sites as Usa River Satellite City to be put up on the southern fringes of the city and Safari Satellite City to be built at Mateves.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is an enchanting town in the heights of the Zugspitze mountain, the tallest in Germany at a height of nearly 3,000 meters. The town was originally two separate settlements, one Roman and the other Teutonic. In anticipation of the 1936 Winter Olympics, the two towns were forced to combine.

Village in the Himalayas, Tibet

This one of many towns built to support monasteries hidden in the Himalaya mountains that are only...

The sight on a section of the Atlantic Ocean beachfront off Monrovia, amazed a producer of a television documentary focused on Liberia as it emerged slowly and painfully from the first brutal civil war in the 1980s and 1990s.

Somalia's Islamist al-Shabab militants are recruiting heavily in north-eastern Kenya, according to evidence gathered by the BBC.

You can take a villager out of a village, but cannot take the village out of him. This is a piece of information that is largely a joke.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting South Sudan and has warned that more peacekeepers must be rapidly deployed to end the conflict.

The United Nations mission in South Sudan reported widespread looting after a patrol in the strategic market town of Bor, which has changed hands several times in the conflict, officials said Friday.