Guest blog by Don Chen: A city upon a hill: How to fulfill the promise of Habitat III
This is reprinted with kind permission from the Ford Foundation web site. The original can be read here . Don Chen is participating in the Habitat III Conference in Quito this week. Follow him on Twitter at @donchennyc for live updates from the conference. This week, the city of Quito will host the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, also known as Habitat III. With more than 40,000 participants attending Habitat III—double the number that attended Habitat II—expectations are high for the conference and for the conference’s final agreement, called the New Urban Agenda . Why is the Habitat III conference generating so much buzz? First, it has the potential to build on and localize the implementation of a series of momentous UN agreements, such as the Paris climate deal and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), recognizing that cities and urbanization are critical to addressing global inequality, poverty, and climate ch...