PART I - CONDITIONS AND TRENDS

1. Population and urban change
1.1 North America
1.2 Latin America and The Caribbean
1.3 West Europe
1.4 East Europe and the 15 republics that were formerly Soviet Union
1.5 Asia and The Pacific
1.6 Africa
1.7 Global change

2. Social conditions and trends
2.1 Assessing progress
2.2 Poverty - extent, vulnerability etc

3. Environmental conditions and trends
3.1 Link between environment and health
3.2 The most serious environmental problems worldwide
3.3 Chemical and physical hazards
3.4 Vulnerability to environmental hazards
3.5 Cities regional impacts
3.6 Global environmental impact

4. Institutional trends and the crisis of governance
4.1 Financing local services within countries
4.2 International finance for housing, infrastructure and the services

PART II - INSIDE HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

5. Housing
5.1 Assessing housing conditions
5.2 The construction sector for housing and infrastructure
5.3 Housing markets and tenure
5.4 Homelessness

6. Land and land markets for housing
6.1 Illegal or informal land markets
6.2 The role of government
6.3 The international influence on cities' land markets

7. Infrastructure and services
7.1 Water supply
7.2 Sanitation
7.3 Solid waste collection

8. Health burden of poor housing conditions
8.1 Housing and health
8.2 The global disease burden in 1990


PART III - RESPONSES TO CONDITIONS AND TRENDS

9. Planning and management
9.1 New directions in urban planning
9.2 Innovations in land management
9.3 Management of environmental infrastructure
9.4 Transport and communication
9.5 Participation and the tools and methods to support it
9.6 Training for settlements management and development

10. Housing and basic services
10.1 How government olices have changed since Vancouver
10.2 Construction sector
10.3 New partnerships

11. Finance for housing, infrastructure and services
11.1 Government programmes for housing finance
11.2 NGO programmes for financing housing and basic services
11.3 Responses of local government

12. Environmental protection and resource management
12.1 Limitations to current approaches
12.2 Resource conservation and waste management
12.3 Developing local agenda 21s
12.4 Reducing cities ecological footprints
12.5 Internationational innovations

PART IV - NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

13. Addressing sustainable development goals
13.1 Cities as solutions