Tag: UN-Habitat
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#ResisteHabitat3 | Final alternative ‘Declaration in defense of our territories’
Following up on my previous post about Habitat 3, here’s the alternative manifesto of Resistencia Habitat III, one of the local movements in Quito that have been organizing parallel events, challenging dominant narratives about urbanization and the UN new urban agenda in the last few months with the help of activists and thinkers around the…
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Synthesis: A new justice for the New Urban Agenda
Habitat III is now part of history, and it remains to be seen how the urban futures that figured so prominently in the official discourses will be shaped by the new urban agenda, well-intentioned but vague as it is. As someone who worked for several years in a UN initiative related to Habitat II’s program…
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La Biblioteca CF+S, galardonada como buena práctica
La Biblioteca ‘Ciudades para un Futuro más Sostenible’, uno de los recursos fundamentales sobre sostenibilidad en Internet, ha obtenido la calificación de “Good” en el IX Concurso Internacional de Buenas Prácticas organizado por UN-Habitat. El concurso se enmarca dentro del Programa de Mejores Prácticas y Liderazgo Local que se celebra cada dos años y que…