Urban Research & Practice· 2017Q1
The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice
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Short summary
The New Urban Agenda, established by SDG 11, risks reducing complex urban realities to measurable metrics, potentially sidelining certain urban spaces.
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Key points
- SDG 11, the first urban-focused Sustainable Development Goal, was established at the UN-HABITAT III conference.
- The New Urban Agenda seeks to improve cities using various metrics and evaluation systems.
- The paper raises concerns about the potential for reductionism within the New Urban Agenda.
- It emphasizes the need to be aware of urban spaces that might be marginalized by current global urban policy.
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Abstract
The UN-HABITAT III conference held in Quito in late 2016 enshrined the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with an exclusively urban focus. SDG 11, as it became known, aims to make cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable through a range of metrics, indicators, and evaluation systems. It also became part of a post-Quito ‘New Urban Agenda’ that is still taking shape. This paper raises questions around the potential for reductionism in this new agenda, and argues for the reflexive need to be aware of the types of urban space that are potentially sidelined by the new trends in global urban policy.
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