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Habitat III

GPR2C comments on Policy Papers Frameworks

By GPR2C Team and UCLG The GPR2C (Global Platform for the Right to the City) commented the 10 Policy Papers Frameworks – all of them were released on last 29th February. According to the Habitat 3 Secretariat, the policy papers are considered official inputs to United...

Habitat 3 Secretariat releases the 10 policy papers

By GPR2C The Habitat 3 Secretariat launched on March 9th 2016 all of the 10 policy papers submmited by Habitat 3 Policy Units on 29 February 2016. The documents are available online and they can be downloaded here. According to the Secretariat, the policy papers are...

A Needed Cornerstone for Habitat III: The Right to the City

By Isabel Pascual GPR2C Team Cities are territories with massive economic, environmental, political and cultural wealth and diversity, both actual and potential. But the development models implemented in most countries today tend to concentrate income and power,...

GPR2C represents the right to the city at experts meeting

GPR2C Team The GPR2C (Global Platform for the Right to the City) members are participanting of the second Habitat III Experts Meeting Policy Unit 1: Right to the City for all,  from 27th to 28th January in Bogota, Colombia. The event is focused on the draft of the New...

Calendar: Toward Habitat III

By Citiscope What follows is a month-by-month breakdown of important events in four interlocking global discussions, those around Financing for Development (FFD), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris climate summit (COP 21) and the Habitat III cities...

UN approves Habitat III participation rules

GPR2C Team (*) The United Nations General Assembly on 22 December 2015, during its seventieth session, adopted the resolution on the ‘Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United...

What room for the Right to the City in Habitat III?

    Rafaella Lima Alexandre Apsan Frediani Barbara Lipietz Introduction How will the Right to the City be incorporated into Habitat III? How will Habitat III remain accountable to the commitments of Habitat I and II and build new commitments towards more...

Habitat III ‘policy units’ experts announced

By Greg Scruggs (Citiscope) NEW YORK — Following two months of delay, the organizers of next year’s Habitat III summit on urbanization have made public the list of 200 individuals who will make up key thematic expert groups for the drafting of the New Urban Agenda,...