
Event: Are Slum-Free Cities Achievable?
On 31 January join a discussion about surging city populations and slums co-hosted by the Global Development Professionals Network and the [...]
On 31 January join a discussion about surging city populations and slums co-hosted by the Global Development Professionals Network and the [...]
Giving each home in the slums a postal address will help achieve the sustainable development goal to improve housing.
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Innovative and agile cities are better placed to solve major global challenges than national governments – in thrall to the momentum [...]
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As many as 45,000 people are gathered in Ecuador’s capital for the UN’s future of cities summit. Inside the [...]
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Dr Joan Clos, driving force behind the Habitat III summit and probably the busiest person in Quito this week, paused [...]
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For Bogotá’s mayor, the way cities are planned is fundamental to their residents’ future happiness. As the UN’s [...]
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On a Saturday afternoon, as soon as the market is drawing to a close, traders bring their boxes of unsold [...]
Over the next week, leaders from around the world will take part in a historic summit on the future of [...]
The severe risk of climate change and rising sea levels on urban areas has not been addressed in the UN’ [...]
Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than [...]
The American elm was once America’s most beloved and abundant city tree. It liked urban soil, and its branches [...]
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Countless communities around the world scavenge on open dumps – with terrible health consequences. As the UN convenes city leaders for [...]
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From the Taksim Square and Nuit Debout protests to bank takeovers in Barcelona and women’s workshops in Delhi, the [...]
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Unaffordable housing, corruption, the lack of public space … can UN-Habitat improve the lot of the billions of people living in [...]
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After nearly three years of open global consultations, fraught negotiations and some high jinks, the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs) [...]
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The other day, I was walking back to my Harlem apartment when I stumbled upon a very shocking sign in [...]
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UN conferences on urbanisation occur just once every 20 years. The third, Habitat III, will convene in Quito, Ecuador late next [...]
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As a deal was struck on funding the poverty battle at the development finance summit in Addis Ababa, the UN [...]
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The official figure for the number of people who live in slums is 863 million people, but that number is more [...]
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The smart city is an alluring vision of the future, in which civic technology such as traffic lights, smart meters [...]