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Peri-urban areas are characterised by haphazard, accelerated expansion and are farthest from basic urban services and infrastructure, according to United Nations-Habitat’s ‘The State of Asian Cities 2010-11’. By 2020, of the projected 4.2 billion urban population of the world, 2.2 billion will be living in Asia, many in peri-urban areas, the U.N. report says.

"These are places where nobody is in charge," said Stephen Tyler of the United States-based Institute of Social and Environmental Transition (ISET), while in the Thai capital to attend the Mar. 12–13 Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum. "Populations residing in peri-urban areas are most vulnerable to climate change because they have neither the modern infrastructure, clean water, and sanitation available in urban areas nor the ecosystems that rural folks fall back on," Tyler told IPS. (...)

The article:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107212

The Report:
http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=8891&catid=643&typeid=46&AllContent=1
http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3078

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UN ‘World Urbanization Prospects’ Report:

http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs//2012/120405_Urbanization.doc.htm

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Città sostenibili - L'appello per una riqualificazione degli edifici:

http://www.ilcambiamento.it/bioedilizia/citta_sostenibili_riqualificazione_edifici_cnappc.html