The Urban planning mission is to produce an image of the future town as it will show after all the developments have taken place. But do Urban Plans and regulations effectively control and guide urban private development? What are the public tools or practices that are used to regulate the...

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) form a blueprint that is agreed to by all the world's countries and its leading development institutions. The first seven goals are mutually reinforcing and are directed at reducing poverty in all its forms. The last goal, global partnership for...