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A Guide to Property Law in Uganda  
View Details This guide has been written as an information resource for government officials, community leaders, humanitarian aid workers, judges, lawyers and others whose responsibilities include upholding land and property rights in Uganda. It outlines the main...
Year: 2007, Number of pages: 34, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Building materials and construction technologies: Annotated UN-HABITAT bibliography  
View Details Summary of existing UN-HABITAT publications, reports and other documents on building materials and construction technologies. Provides readers with an overview of work undertaken by UN-HABITAT in these fields during the last two decades. Provides a g...
Year: 2003, Number of pages: 60, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Building Materials and Health  
View Details This publication covers a comprehensive research study conducted by UN-HABITAT which focuses exclusively on ways in which a variety of building materials contribute to different aspects of health hazards and the means available for prevention their a...
Year: 1997, Number of pages: 64, Type of publication: Book
Cities and Homes for All: The Habitat Agenda  
View Details The Habitat Agenda records the commitments made by 171 states at the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1996. This booklet is a shorter, reader-friendly version of the Habitat Agenda. It de...
Year: 1991, Number of pages: 40, Type of publication: Book
Cities without slums  
View Details Includes a brief overview of what slums are and why the continue to exist. Assesses the limitations of past policy responses towards slums and lessons learnt. Reviews the potential of current directions and trends towards achieving the goal of cities...
Year: 2002, Number of pages: 15, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Community Construction Contract System in Sri Lanka (THE)  
View Details The publication argues the need for new approaches to infrastructure service delivery and describes one innovative approach as developed in Sri Lanka. The community construction contract is explained in detail, including the procedures of awarding co...
Year: 1994, Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book
Compendium of Information on Selected Low-cost Building Materials  
View Details The purpose of this compendium is to assemble information on a range of building-material technologies which have the potential to improve the low-income housing situation in developing countries
Year: 1988, Number of pages: 106, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Compressed earth blocks  
View Details The poster illustrates the main stages of production including sieving the soil, measuring and mixing of components, moulding, quality control, curing and stacking. It also includes guidelines on the proper building practices when using compressed ea...
Year: 2001, , Type of publication: Promotional Material Download electronic version (PDF)
Corrosion damages to concrete structures in Western Asia  
View Details Corrosion damages to concrete structures in Western Asia
Year: 1990, Number of pages: 33, Type of publication: Book
Developing A National Shelter Strategy: Lessons From Four Countries  
View Details This report summarizes the experience carried out on national housing strategies in four developing countries, that is Barbados. Jamaica, Kenya and Zimbabwe. This material is offered as an example to other countries (and the donor community) with the...
Year: 1990, Number of pages: 43, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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