United Nations Photo - d71.jpg

Close

UN Photo

Digital Asset Management System

0

Selected

Invert selection

Click here to refresh results

Click here to refresh results

Go to Login page

One of the main purposes of the UN Conference - Exposition on Human Settlements held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1976, was to bring to the World's attention the nature and relative importance of the problems of human settlements against a background of widespread concern for the whole of our earthly environment - natural and manmade. Two of the most critical problems of society today are the shortage of adequate housing and the deterioration of the conditions under which people live and work. Many cities are unable to provide adequate housing, food, sanitation, work and other essential services for all the people flocking to them in search of a better life. Rural settlements are being abandoned and neglected. Urbanization is not an evil in itself. The process can be guided and converted into a positive factor in development. Economic development and an improvement in the quality of human life need not be competing alternatives. They are both vital and in the common interest of all mankind.

A woman in her kitchen in Cross Roads, South Africa.

Alluvial diamond deposits are an important source of income to Sierra Leone. Methods are being devised to control surreptitious diamond smuggling, for the country loses millions of dollars through these illegal activities.
Diamond workers are seen here panning alluvial deposits into baskets on the banks of a river.

People enjoying a Sunday stroll on a Tokyo street closed to motor traffic. In Japan shopping centres are open on Sundays to enable the people to shop leisurely. To encourage shoppers to use public transport and enjoy their outing some city streets are converted to temporary picnic areas.

Unique ID UN7ALB50465

Conceptually similar

Human Settlement – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1974 23:51:21

Unique ID UN7597242

Human Settlement – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1974 23:51:43

Unique ID UN7597233

Human Settlement – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1974 00:06:13

Unique ID UN7597348

Human Settlement – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1974 00:06:21

Unique ID UN7597346

Human Settlements - The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 20:04:06

Unique ID UN7558398

Human Settlements - The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 20:03:51

Unique ID UN7558403

Human Settlements - The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 20:03:54

Unique ID UN7558402

Human Settlements – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1974 23:51:35

Unique ID UN7597236

Human Settlements - The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1974 17:10:36

Unique ID UN7539531

Human Settlements – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 09:10:55

Unique ID UN7543460

Human Settlements - The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 21:28:58

Unique ID UN7589692

Human Settlements – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 20:04:27

Unique ID UN7558393

Human Settlements – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 21:28:59

Unique ID UN7589691

Human Settlements – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 21:29:00

Unique ID UN7589690

Human Settlements - Places Where People Live and Work

04/01/1973 20:02:47

Unique ID UN7543490

Human Settlements – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1978 15:58:44

Unique ID UN7496183

Human Settlements - Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1976 12:09:42

Unique ID UN7758802

Human Settlements – The Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1980 21:29:03

Unique ID UN7589687

Human Settlements - Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1974 08:56:47

Unique ID UN7721360

Human Settlements - Places Where People Live and Work

01/01/1975 16:56:40

Unique ID UN7752831

similar-image

similar-image

similar-image

similar-image

similar-image

View images with similar tones

Headline Human Settlement – The Places Where People Live and Work

Caption Description One of the main purposes of the UN Conference-Exposition on Human Settlements to be held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1976, will be to bring to the world’s attention the nature and relative importance of the problems of human settlements against a background of widespread concern for the whole of our earthly environment – natural and man-made. Two of the most critical problems of society today – made increasingly urgent by the rapid rise in the world’s population – are the shortage of adequate housing and the deterioration of the conditions under which people live and work. Many cities, particularly in the poorer countries of the world, are unable to provide adequate housing, food, sanitation, work and other essential services for all the people flocking to them in search of a better life. Rural settlements are being abandoned and neglected. Urbanization is not an evil in itself. The process can be guided and converted into a positive factor in development. Economic development and an improvement in the quality of human life need not be competing alternatives. They are both vital and in the common interest of all mankind. The UN Vancouver Conference will endeavor to stimulate thinking along those lines.
A pavement news-stand in the Constitution Square, Athens.

Unique Identifier UN7597241

NICA ID 249201

Production Date 01/01/1974 11:51:00 PM

City/Location Athens

Country Greece

Credit UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras

File size 3.89 MB