From The Global Urbanist International
National housing and urban development authorities meet in Nairobi this week to set the agenda for UN-HABITAT for the next two years. But what they won’t be talking much about is how the conflicting pressures of domestic politics makes a lot of that agenda impossible to fulfil. How can we put domestic politics back on the table?
KERWIN DATU,
With national representatives from around the world meeting at UN-HABITAT’s Nairobi headquarters for its biannual Governing Council this week, it’s a good time to reflect on the global urban agenda.
But what is a global urban agenda? Does the world even have a conscious agenda for its cities? What should it consist of? What should our priorities be? Can we really have a global agenda, given the diversity of cities in the world and the issues they face? Continue reading
