A well-planned response to the unprecedented expansion of cities may hold the key to responding to climate change and other challenges of the 21st century, as shown at the LSE Urban Age conference in Delhi last week.
We set out our intentions for the next two years leading to Habitat III in 2016, with a call to think beyond the tick-a-box approach to the Habitat Agenda currently being encouraged.
Reviewing UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum held in MedellĂn last week, Laura Cesafsky hears two camps talking past each other on the lack of scientific knowledge underpinning the New Urban Agenda.
We argue that the Habitat III Agenda currently on the table comprises several serious omissions, including any acknowledgement that conflict routinely arises in urban areas.
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We are in danger of sleepwalking into a Habitat III Agenda that has learnt nothing from the shortcomings of the past 20 years of urban development efforts, such as the failures to stem widening inequalities, to roll out infrastructure and basic services at the same pace as urbanisation, or to harness market forces for the benefit of the poor.
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The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world.
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