Over the past 50 years, precarious living conditions in cities around the world have boosted social mobilisation under the banner of "Right to the City."
As part of the preparation for Habitat III, Cities Alliance and the N’AERUS) established three working groups to provide recommendations for policy and research for the New Urban Agenda.
Urbanisation is a source of dynamism that can enhance productivity and increase economic integration, says a new World Bank report, Africa’s Cities: Opening Doors to the World, released February 9, 2017.
The report Investing in Urban Resilience cautions that rising numbers of natural disasters, as well as a growing number of economic, social, and environmental shocks and stresses, pose the greatest risk to rapidly-growing cities.
