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What is Urban Law?

Urban law is the collection of policies, laws, decisions, and practices that govern the management and development of the urban environment. Legal systems are among the major impediments preventing innovative mayors and urban managers from creating reforms and overcoming the pressing challenges of their cities and urban systems. Many cities are burdened by laws that do not match the prevailing urban reality. Worse still, the capacity to enforce laws and regulations that are already in place is often lacking. Municipal authorities often have limited access to specialist legislative expertise, and struggle to respond to these situations. The multiplicity and rigidity of laws and regulations compel citizens to pursue informal routes to conduct land and property transactions, to do business, to acquire means of a livelihood, and even to access basic services. As a result, parallel systems flourish and Urban Legal informality becomes the norm.

The Challenge

The impact of legislation is important: it can set meaningful frameworks for sustainable development or accentuate inequalities and exclusion. The multiplicity and rigidity of laws and regulations compel citizens to pursue informal routes in areas such as land and property transactions, so urban legal informality becomes the norm. Practical legal interventions are needed to create robust, fair and effective legal instruments for a stable and predictable framework and to guarantee the inclusion of the interests of vulnerable groups, while also providing a catalyst for local and national discourse.

UN-Habitat’s Work on Urban Legislation

UN-Habitat’s knowledge pertaining to legal reform is used to support cities. In addition, UN-Habitat is developing mechanisms for the creation and dissemination of legal knowledge and a network to develop capacity and access external expertise, with the aim of producing:

an increased awareness of legal systems operating at the city and national levels;

recommendations for more robust strategies to reform urban legal systems; and

improved capacities of local authorities to design and implement legal reform.

In undertaking it’s work, UN-Habitat places a priority on practical interventions that are tailored to national and local contexts and needs. These priorities depend upon effective partnerships with local authorities, local experts, and affected communities. Through this approach, UN-Habitat provides the support local and national governments need to incrementally improve their urban legal frameworks while also developing innovative solutions to shape future urban development.

Impact

The Urban Lex database has

1,800

legal instruments from 68 countries across many thematic areas. The database provides over 24,000 stakeholders with access to urban laws for learning and comparative analysis.

UN-Habitat has supported

13

countries implement land policy reforms utilizing the continuum of land rights and fit-for-purpose land administration methodologies developed by UN-Habitat and the Global Land Tool Network.

Over

25

new urban legal reform processes completed, improving the alignment of legal frameworks of national and local authorities for implementation of the New Urban Agenda.

News and Stories

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30 November 2021

UN-Habitat and Ministry of Internal Affairs kick start the National Urban Policy formulation in Liberia

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20 May 2021

Expert Group Meeting focuses on People Centred Urban Governance

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18 December 2020

The way in which cities are planned, managed and designed determines the opportunities for inclusion of the elderly: Euskal Hiria 2020

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17 August 2020

New Urban Land Management Law to guide land issues in Puntland, Somalia

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1 April 2020

The Rights and Health of Refugees, Migrants and Stateless Must be Protected in COVID-19 Response

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Highlighted Publications

Technical Report

Benchmarking Case Studies on Public Participation in Spatial Planning Processes In Four Countries: Australia, Chile, South Africa And The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland: Urban Governance Case Studies, Volume 2

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Technical Report

Comparative Analysis of Housing Acts in Five Countries: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa: Urban Legal Case Studies, Volume 13

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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides

Urban Planning Law for Climate Smart Cities: The Urban Law Module of the Law and Climate Change Toolkit

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Technical Report

Human Rights, Rule of Law and the New Urban Agenda

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Policy and Strategy

Planning Law Assessment Framework

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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides

Reforming Urban Laws in Africa: A Practical Guide

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Donors and partners

The success of UN-Habitat’s work on legislation relies on a network of partners for developing mechanisms to create and disseminate legal tools and knowledge and to support legal reform processes.

UN-Habitat jointly organizes annual urban law days with academic institutions to exchange best practices, expertise, and innovation in the field of urban legislation and development among a multidisciplinary circle of professionals. This collaboration has brought about greater sustainability, comprehensive outreach and increased awareness of strategies to develop functional effective legal systems.

UrbanLex is UN-Habitat’s principal means of collecting and openly sharing primary information on urban law. As well as providing direct access to the largest collection of legal instruments organized and summarised according to urban priorities, UrbanLex provides a platform for comparative analysis and the identification of patterns and innovations in urban law and is supported by a growing network of partners, such as FAO, CNJUR, University of Wits, etc.

The Urban Legislation Unit is collaborating with UN Environment, UNFCCC and the Commonwealth Secretariat for the development of the Law and Climate Change Toolkit. The Toolkit provides a global resource to help countries to put in place the necessary legal frameworks for effective national implementation of the Paris Agreement and their Nationally Determined Contributions.

Partners

Partners

The Urban Law Center, Fordham University, USA https://www.urbanlawcenter.org/ A…

Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth, Georgia State Universi…

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, U.K.

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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