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Highlights of the Rome Declaration on Population and the Urban Future. The International Conference on Population and the Urban Future, Rome, Italy, September 1-4, 1980.


 The process of urbanization can be harnessed to realize humankind's goal of just, peaceful, and lasting progress, yet if this is to occur, urbanization must take place under both planned and orderly conditions. As the situation around the world is reviewed, it becomes obvious that these planned and orderly conditions for urbanization do not, for the most part, exist. In many areas of the world the problems confronting urban settlements are already acute. They include shortages in virtually every service, amenity, and support required for tolerable urban living. Housing and shelter, basic health services, clean air and potable water, education, transport, energy supplies, open spaces and recreational facilities are lacking in many parts of the world. In addition, under conditions of unplanned urbanization, the situation is becoming worse. The economic problems include unemployment, underemployment, lack of means of livelihood, poverty, and deprivation. Among the social problems are crime, delinquency, social segregation, and the exploitation of certain groups. Unplanned urbanization may generate tension between groups and classes within the city itself. It may also generate tension between urban and rural areas within national boundaries. The pace and pattern of urbanization, and the nature of the social and economic development that occurs, are crucially influenced by demographic trends. The measures proposed in the Rome Declaration on Population and the Urban Future require action primarily at the national, regional, metropolitan, or local levels. International cooperation and assistance is needed if these measures are to be successfully carried out. The decade of the 1980s is the time for intensive effort and for the necessary reorientation of the response of peoples and governments to the urbanization problem.
