ISOCARP at World Urban Forum 11

“We only have 2,743 days left to implement the New Urban Agenda and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.” UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif’s motto during the eleventh session of the World Urban Forum (WUF11) reflected the feeling of many participants that fast action is needed for cities to recover from multiple crises and embark on a rapid transition towards sustainable urban development. The “triple C crises” of COVID-19 pandemic, climate disasters, and emerging conflicts are converging on cities, pushing already marginalized populations further into poverty. Against this backdrop, many participants agreed that the world’s race towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be decided in cities, and it will be decided soon.

The Forum was lauded for its efforts towards accessibility, with full interpretation in international and Polish sign language, and numerous improvements for the visually and physically impaired. Organized as a hybrid event by UN-Habitat, the Polish Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, and the Municipal Office of Katowice, WUF11 took place in Katowice, Poland, from 25-30 June 2022. The event attracted a total of 17,003 attendees, with 10,799 participants from 155 countries attending in person. Approximately three-quarters of the gender-balanced participants came from Europe, while participants for Africa and Asia accounted for 7.5% and 8.7% respectively.

The theme of WUF11, “Transforming our Cities for a Better Urban Future”, has provided great insights and clarity on the future of cities based on existing trends, challenges and opportunities, exploring ways in which cities can be better prepared to address future pandemics and a wide range of other shocks.

“The future of humanity is undeniably urban, and we must plan our cities well to ensure sustainability, equity and shared prosperity”

ISOCARP has been represented by an ample delegation of both Board Members as well as Society professionals, actively involved in organizing several training and networking events, as well as three exchange events held at the joint ITACUS / ISOCARP Booth in the expo area of the conference.

1. ISOCARP Training event – “The Planning System we need”

On 28 June, between 9:00-12:00 CEST, the ISOCARP training event (TE10) “The Planning System We Need: Reviewing and Reforming Planning Systems for More Sustainable Cities and Regions” took place in Room 10 in ICC Multifunction Hall. The event was organised by ISOCARP, in partnership with UN-Habitat and ITACUS.

The participants were welcomed by Pietro Elisei (ISOCARP President) and Naomi Hoogervorst (Programme Officer, UN-Habitat). After an introduction to ‘the review of planning systems by Frank D’hondt (Secretary General, ISOCARP) and Ulrich Graute (International Urban and Regional Development Expert), international experts highlighted features of planning systems across the world, including the Polish Planning System Review by Piotr Lorens (Professor, Gdansk University of Technology), Planning System in Saudi Arabia by Halima Mrabti (UN-Habitat Saudi Arabia), Planning System in the USA by Bruce Stiftel (Professor Emeritus Georgia Institute of Technology), Planning System in Nigeria byTaibat Lawanson (Professor, University of Lagos), Planning System in India by Mahak Agrawal (ITACUS), andPlanning System Reforms in China by Li Fan (Habitat Unit, TU Berlin). As the last speaker of the international planning system session, Thomas Stellmach (Director, TSPA) delivered findings on Comparative Planning Systems.

The session was moderated by Haris Piplas (Co-director of Integrated Urban Solutions, Drees & Sommer), followed by a questionnaire survey facilitated by Sabina Dimitriu (President, APUR) and Frank D’hondt (Secretary General, ISOCARP). More than 50 training participants engaged for the survey to highlight features of planning systems in their cities/countries/regions. The survey questions guided the participants towards what a sustainable planning system is and how to move toward system-level review and reform.

2. ISOCARP Networking event – “Making Green Planning Happen”

The Networking Event “Making Green Planning Happen”, was organized by the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) in partnership with the Society of Polish Town Planners (TUP), the Romanian Association of Urban Planners (APUR) and the Society of South African Planners (SACPLAN) on the 28^th of June 2022, between 12:30 – 14:00 CEST, and was live-streamed to members and partners. The event focused on showcasing impactful pathways towards decarbonization and green urban planning across the globe, underlining three key aspects of green planning: ensuring climate change responses and providing climate change resilience; securing socially inclusive modes of planning and city building, and focusing on digitally oriented solutions.

The session was opened with a keynote speech by ISOCARP President Pietro Elisei, delivered on how urban planning and governance can deliver the transitions we need, followed by an introduction provided by Piotr Lorens (Department Head, Gdansk University of Technology).

From hereafter, the session was moderated by Sabina Dimitriu (President, APUR) featured five short presentations from young planning professionals coming from different parts of the world and different domains, bringing together ideas and proposals related to the twin (green and digital) transition. The first presentation, by Julia Desperak (Master’s student, Gdańsk University of Technology), “Urban areas – why do 70% of the population want to live there?” highlighted the challenges for green planning. Serin Geambazu (Planning professional and teaching assistant, APUR) and her presentation “Green Transition Beyond Buzzwords” provided an overview of the transitional process and lessons learned from bottom-up responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Romania. Piotr Gajdka (Master student, Gdańsk University of Technology) focused on urban food production in his presentation “a fad or the future?”. The effects of climate change in South Africa evident in the recent flooding across KwaZulu-Natal, and possible strategies for resilient planning in response to floods were presented by Kiara Rampaul (PhD candidate, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). Lastly, Bahaa Bou Kalfouni (PhD candidate, Gdansk University of Technology) shared key features of green planning and governance in confronting climate emergencies and creating sustainable urban environment in coastal informal settlements, with a case study for the coastal suburb of southern Beirut, Lebanon.

The challenges and solutions offered by the young planning professionals fuelled the next panel discussion, moderated by Darinka Golubović Matić (Associate Professor, University Union Nikola Tesla), and featuring global experts Eleanor Mohammed (President, Commonwealth Association of Planners), Olga Chepelianskaia (Founder, UNICITI), Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu (SARChi Chair for Inclusive Cities), Bert Smolders (Senior consultant, Resilient Development, Climate Adaptation and Post-disaster Recovery), Siniša Trkulja (Advisor, Ministry of Construction Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Serbia) and Tijana Tufek Memisevic (President, Candarc LLC). The panel discussion focused on the following planning challenges and entry points for the green transition:

• What are the main economic, property-related, political and administrative factors slowing down systematic change in the way planning is done?
• City leaders have been taking things into their hands more and more (with initiatives such as C40, etc.): is this a good move or a fall-back position?
• Planners have been talking about change for a long time: which kind of allies do they need to make change happen? Other professions? Political leadership?
• To achieve short term change, what should we aim for first?

The final section featured an interactive Q&A with the panel and the participants in the room.

3. WHO Consultation with urban stakeholders on a Strategic Guide (SG) for Urban Health

The World Health Organisation has increased its presence towards the community of urban stakeholders, building upon its growing work around urban health. As part of WHO’s 13^th General Programme of Work (2019-23), a new Urban Health Unit has been set up to advance WHO’s urban health agenda for the benefit of the Member States, local governments, and everyone affected by cities and urbanization. The SG aims to promote and enable a holistic approach to urban health among national and city-level decision-makers, clarify the need for this approach and identify entry points and best practices for action.

During the World Urban Forum, it assured full presence at its booth and participated in various sessions. On 28 June 9-10 am, WHO Urban Health Unit convened a set of important urban actors—including representatives from public international organizations ((such as OECD), civil society, city networks (such as C40), professional organizations ((such as WEF), private firms, NGOs, and community advocates—for a Consultation on a Strategic Guide (SG) for Urban Health. ISOCARP was represented by Jens Aerts (urban planner Sweco, Community of Practice “Urban Health”). This meeting is part of a broader series of consultations seeking feedback from key urban health stakeholders. It was led by Jose Siri, senior consultant and epidemiologist at WHO.

Participants were briefed on the SG and provided valuable feedback, while briefly highlighting their own organizations’ work and objectives in the urban context. The discussion touched on needs and opportunities, strategy and prioritization of actions, effective narratives and advocacy, and the potential for mutual support. ISOCARP and several participants indicated a strong interest in alignment with or collaboration on the SG and agreed to explore further involvement as the effort moves forward. As a next step, the WHO Urban Health team will consolidate feedback from the various SG consultations to initiate the implementation of various issue papers and in-depth policy consultations in late summer/fall 2022.

4. Power of Public Space for Post-conflict Reconstruction in Contested Cities

The Networking Event (NE164) with the title of Power of Public Space for Post-conflict Reconstruction in Contested Cities, co-organized by Eastern Mediterranean University Urban Research and Development Center (EMU URDC) and City Space Architecture, focused on knowledge sharing on public space and its meaning in conflict cities for shaping resilient communities. It was co-moderated by Prof. Dr. Sebnem Hoskara and Dr Luisa Bravo, with the belief that, in conflict cities, for example, in divided cities like Nicosia, in the course of daily life, urban public space is often shared more than residents realize. Thus, urban public spaces create room for unexpected or surprising encounters and illustrate both the potential and challenges of having a less segregated city. The event brought together public space experts, scholars, designers, professionals, planners and social scientists to share experiences and knowledge that they have gained in conflict cities. As has been indicated in a Briefing Paper prepared by the Center for Urban Conflict Research at the University of Cambridge, “is divided/conflicting cities, urban planners and relevant organizations must ensure that fragile social arrangements that encourage mixing of residents are not disrupted by the imposition of barriers and basic sharing of space may depend on people having mundane reasons to be together, such as shopping, work and the use of health care facilities“. Accordingly, two keynote presentations from the UK (Prof. Wendy Pullan) and Lebanon (Wael Sinno) were invited to contribute to the event and other speakers presented through “PechaKucha” type of presentations to express their views on the power of public space in conflict cities based on their experience.

The event aimed to help participants understand how in conflicting cities, people from different communities have motivations for sharing urban public spaces. The participants had networking on the value and power of public space and try to answer the following questions:

• How can public spaces be used to sustainably reconstruct conflict cities?
• How to re-shape public space in conflict cities to reach urban resiliency and recovery?

The speakers of the event shared their experiences in public space from seven different conflict cities, namely Nicosia (Dr Socrates Stratis, Dr Munevver Ozgur Ozersay and Lara Anna Scharf), Famagusta (Dr Never Zafer Comert), East Jerusalem (Haya Mani), Johannesburg (Ayanda Roji and Tariq Toffa) and, Beirut (Wael Sinno), Sarajevo (Dr Tijana Tufek-Memišević), Berlin (Dr Hendrick Tieben) and Mogadishu (Omar Degan). The main gain of the event was lessons learned from different conflicting country contexts. The use of public space as a place for resistance to post-conflict and during-conflict reconstruction to make cities inclusive and resilient in response to an urban crisis was the main concern of the event.

The event was supported by ISOCARP and UN-HABITAT and it was included on the WUF11 Urban Crises Track.

5. Health training

The training event “Integrating health in urban and territorial planning” was organized by UN-Habitat, ISOCARP Community of Practice on Urban Health (CoPUH), and the World Health Organization (WHO). It took place on the 29^thof June 2022, between 9:00 and 12:00 CEST. The focus of the training was to discuss synergies between public health planning and spatial planning. The training event consisted of two parts: the informative and the interactive one.

The session was moderated by Pamela Carbajal Perez from UN-Habitat. ISOCARP Board member and Co-lead of CoPUH Elisabeth Belpaire introduced ISOCARP’s CoPUH supporting the critical role of planning for health&wellbeing of people and the planet. Christina Vert from WHO gave the first presentation. She introduced the topic and presented the recently released Sourcebook (UN-Habitat/WHO) with a comprehensive selection of existing resources and tools to support the integration of health into urban and territorial planning (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240003170).

During the second half of the informative session, three ISOCARP members, Martina Germanà, Ganesh Babu and Jens Aerts presented three case studies to demonstrate the possible spatial implications of this synergy.

Martina and Ganesh, from the Dutch urban strategy and design office PosadMaxwan, presented Healthy South Holland and Rotterdam Mobility Approach. The first project is situated at the regional scale. It defines the steps that we must take to make South Holland the healthiest Dutch province by 2040 and what that means for the spatial context around us. In this case study, a deep data analysis forms the base for practical, spatial choices. The second project is set on the city scale. It was commissioned by the traffic department of Rotterdam and asked about how to improve the health of the residents through changing the mobility system. We mapped strategic interventions related to equal access to mobility services, slow mobility implementation, and clean city logistics and defined how these could be phased from now until 2040 (https://posadmaxwan.nl/en/news/47/healthy-safe-and-accessible-with-the-rotterdam-mobility-approach).

Jens Aerts from the Belgian office BUUR part of SWECO, tackled the issue highlighting the crucial importance of investments in planning, design and regulatory frameworks related to green-blue networks for healthy and resilient living environments, based on the recently launched Handbook to support local authorities in Flanders, Belgium.

The second part of the event was organized in the form of an interactive workshop, inviting everyone to active participation. The panellists mentioned above moderated the session with the help of Abraham Thiga Mwaura, WHO project officer and Mathias Gorz, ISOCARP member and urban designer at PosadMaxwan. Cunha Tales UN-Habitat intern and ISOCARP member based in Brazil supported the preparation of the training remotely. The training session was built around the asset-based approach; we aimed to identify places, people, and processes that contribute to urban health. Diverse participants brought interesting stories from around the world to the table. Consequently, based on the highlighted assets, we could discuss how to leverage our interventions on regional, city and neighbourhood scales.

6. Interactive Laboratory on “Leverages for Transformation”

As one of the many special sessions at the 11^th WUF, the event “Leverages for Transformation” was staged by UN-Habitat and was held in the UN-Habitat Arena on 26 June, from 9:30 to 10:30. ISOCARP SciCom Chair Dushko Bogunovich moderated this session. The session was structured around three introductory speakers covering three topics:

• Victoria Delbridge of the International Growth Centre on Evidence-based Planning and Decision-making;
• Maria Buhigas of the City of Barcelona on Creating Regional Planning to Sustainable Neighborhood Design (at the session renamed: Territorial Scales Integration)
• Herman Pienaar of UN-Habitat on Spatially Targeted Investment Planning.

After the three speakers, the floor was open to some 60 to 70 attendees in the Arena. A lively Q&A dialogue and discussion ensued. In the end, Bogunovich was asked to summarise the key points:

• VB’s talk focused on the relationship between the concept of a ‘smart city’ and social justice. She raised the issues of common biases in decision making; quality of data; trust and sharing; and local authority capacity for reliable forecasting.
• MB’s talk focused on different territorial scales of opportunities, linking detailed design to planning at a national level. She talked about the struggle to cover space from geography to architecture; pockets of opportunity for bankable projects; and the critical role of fair politics and sound governance in bringing together the different spatial scales.
• HPs’ talk focused on the quality of financial decisions concerning spatial information. He talked about poor communication between planners and the financiers; the potential for cumulative value in area-based portfolios; and convincingly argued the case for ‘space as the integrator of strategy, projects and funding’.

In the end, what seemed like three separate topics of this extremely well-conceived session merged into one overall theme: the idea – or shall we say imperative? – of making spatial planning more effective rests on the triple pillar of quality, shared data and analysis, integrated at as many spatial scales as possible, and finance allocated at the right place, at the right time.

7. ITACUS/ISOCARP booth

ITACUS booth, shared with ISOCARP, was in Hall 2.5, Stand #74.

Pandemic showed that cities must be reimagined and transformed for a healthier life whilst re-prioritising response to challenges amplifying inequalities.

At this year’s WUF, ISOCARP had the pleasure to share booth space at the Urban Expo with its long-time partner ITACUS – the ITA Committee on Underground Space. Together with the ITACUS team at WUF, led by Olivier Vion, Mahak Agrawal and Petr Salak, it was a pleasure to be one of the few innovative conversation starters and ground-breakers at the Forum.

As we connected, interacted and engaged with multidisciplinary experts from across the world at the Expo and the booth, one key learning for us was that if we want to prepare ourselves and respond to opportunities for a better urban future, we don’t just need to anticipate change; we need to accept the change and iterate our plans of action.

• Booth event: The Caribbean’s Urban Agenda

On the 30th June 2022, “The Caribbean’s Urban Agenda” ISOCARP booth event took place in hybrid form, between 2:00 pm- 3:30 pm, hosted by ISOCARP Secretary General Frank D’hondt and ISOCARP@WUF11 Task Force co-lead Li Fan (Habitat Unit, TU Berlin).

Urban Planning is often touted as one of the key actions for achieving sustainable and resilient development in the Caribbean region, however, it is widely viewed as not having lived up to its promise. This event brought together ISOCARP, the Caribbean Based NGO, Public Space Global, and urban experts from the region for a conversation focused on the constraints faced by small island states when planning, insights into the future of urban development in the region, and ways in which ISOCARP can support the region.

Renelle Sarjeant (Public Space Global) kicked off the session by focusing on challenges faced by Small Island developing states including low human and financial resource base, fragile ecosystems, vulnerability to climate hazards and limited redundancy in key urban functions. She explored how these challenges shape and are shaped by the urban governance systems in place in the region.

Next up were Jhordan Channer and Dorraine Duncan, co-founders of Island City Lab, investigating the urban development process in Caribbean cities and how car dependency is shaping their form. Focusing on Jamaica’s car-dependency ‘culture’ they presented solutions which reflect opportunities for all Caribbean cities to increase mobility options and appropriately densify communities.

Sarah Mahadeo (World Maritime University- Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute) presented three policy response options for islands in the Caribbean in the face of climate change and sea level rise; retreat, defend and advance. Highlighting modelling and mapping tools and vulnerability and risk analyses can be introduced into spatial use scenarios.

Shomari Jones, a Sustainability Consultant based in Barbados examined the current development financing landscape which has seen a relative decline in traditional forms of development financing. Recognising this he examined the need to align public and private investment and to develop local financial systems for urbanization that integrate a combination of grants, concessionary funding, borrowing, and emerging financing alternatives.

After the presentations, the panel, moderated by Kareem Winter (Public Space Global) responded to questions posed by the virtual audience. The following priorities for the Caribbeans Urban Agenda emerged:

• Considering public health issues such as air quality in urban planning decision making
• Re-examining the relevance of British urban planning models in the region
• Tailoring the size and scale of administrative structures to existing resource availability
• Finding ways to transfer the cost and risk of infrastructure development and maintenance from the state

• Booth event: Sino-EU Sustainable urban regeneration

On the 30^th of June, between 10:00-11:30, an ISOCARP booth event took place in hybrid form to facilitate Sino-EU collaboration in the field of sustainable urban and rural regeneration. ISOCARP President Pietro Elisei and Sabina Dimitriu (President of Romanian Professional Association of Urban Planners) kicked off the event by introducing the urban/rural regeneration practice in the European context. This was followed by a series of presentations from Huang Huang (Assistant Professor, Tongji University), Yunsheng Su (Executive Vice Dean, Shanghai International Institute of Design and Innovation), Tianren Yang (Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong) and Yu Wang (Senior Researcher and Head of Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology). The event was concluded by a discussion on future collaboration opportunities in both applied research and planning practice. The hybrid event was hosted by Tianren Yang and ISOCARP@WUF11 Task Force co-lead Li Fan (Habitat Unit, TU Berlin).

• Booth event: Trialog Showcase

A TRIALOG e.V. showcase was held in the ISOCARP booth at the World Urban Forum on the 29^th of June, between 14:00-14:30h. TRIALOG is a non-profit association and was kindly invited to present its work, including the latest issues of the TRIALOG Journal, the annual TRIALOG conference and its membership activities. After a general introduction by TRIALOG member Li Fan (ISOCARP), TRIALOG board members Dr Nadine Appelhans (Habitat Unit, TU Berlin) and Franziska Laue (Municipality of Stuttgart) informed on the possibilities to publish independent essays or edit an entire journal issue. The scope of the publications covers urban issues from practice and academic discourse. The association, founded in Germany, is entering its fourth decade of publishing and networking and funds its activities via membership fees and donations. It currently has close to 100 members from the built environment professions and academia. Membership is open to everybody at any time. TRIALOG e.V. would like to express its thanks for this opportunity to engage with ISOCARP and would like to encourage further collaboration in the future. More information on TRIALOG e.V. and its activities can be found via the association’s webpage www.trialog-journal.de

8. Social Event: ISOCARP/RTPI Reception

On 29 June, 18:30-20:00, GPN (Global Planners Network) member reception took place in moodro bistro & cafe within the settings of Silesian Museum, a 10-minute walk from WUF11. The reception was sponsored and hosted by RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute) and ISOCARP. Timothy David Crawshaw (President of RTPI), Pietro Elisei (President of ISOCARP), Frank D’hondt (Secretary General of ISOCARP), ISOCARP members and friends and colleagues of ISOCARP attended the reception.

9. Habitat Professionals Forum

On 26 June, 16:00-17:30, on the HPF General Assembly, ISOCARP member Mona Rady was elected as the chair of HPF. ISOCARP board member Eric Huybrechts was elected as co-chair of HPF. Congratulations to both!

On 29 June, 10:15-11:15, The Roadmap to Just Recovery was officially launched in the Press Conference Center. The Roadmap provides a framework for enabling healthier, more resilient and regenerative communities by illuminating the vital contribution that territorial planning and design can make to recovery, identifying the system changes needed to recover not only from the current pandemic but also to provide resilience to future “global shocks” and illustrating the need and potential for more effective interventions

The Roadmap contains four underlying interventions that inform 11 propositions. The four key interventions of the Roadmap are:

• A Refreshed commitment to a shared vision
• Going local
• Establish tests of real progress
• Scale up the capacity for action

The Roadmap sets out 22 propositions to change the way we plan and manage our cities and regions, and to make them fit for purpose in the Post-Covid World. The propositions are presented in two parts. The first reflects General Propositions relevant to all built environment professionals, while the second prescribes opportunities by discipline. For the next steps, the HPF Partners will review their practices and policies in the light of the HPF 2022 Roadmap to ensure they are fit for purpose in delivering the New Urban Agenda. The HPF will support Task Forces of Habitat professionals to provide both high-level and context-specific recommendations to city managers, regions, and state governments regarding city and settlement resilience in the age of global emergencies. The HPF calls upon all international networks and bodies to join in this endeavour to activate new concepts and best practices in human settlements and cities facing epidemics and other crises, including climate change.

During the press conference, Lance Jay Brown commented that it is a living document with open-ended thematic propositions, which welcomes further comments and inputs from professionals. Eric Huybrechts commented that it is an urgent commitment for professionals. The role of planning professionals has not been sufficiently addressed in SDGs. We should link different initiatives by different institutions and give more connections to them, to facilitate them to go in the same direction. We are strong and not alone.

10. Planning for a New Urban Agenda

On 30 June, supported by ISOCARP, the Global Planners Network organised a Networking Event on “A New Planning Agenda”, to complement the New Urban Agenda on its planning dimensions. This session included some of the leading voices and experts from around the world:

• Timothy David Crawshaw, RTPI President in 2022
• Professor Piotr Lorens, Head of the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, and representing the Polish Institute of Planners
• Olafiyin Taiwo Chair of the Commonwealth Association of Planners Young Planners Network
• Eleanor Mohammed, President, Commonwealth Institute of Planners

Both Secretary General Frank D’hondt and Board member/SciCom Chair Dushko Bogunovic participated and contributed to the lively debate following the brief addresses, resulting in a list of planning issues to be included in the future ‘Global Planning Agenda’. This event was held the day after a meeting of at WUF present members of the Global Planners Network, resulting in a joint GPN Katowice Declaration, followed by a Social Event/Reception for all GPN affiliated members present at WUF11, organized by ISOCARP and RTPI (see item 8). After the Forum, ISOCARP co-signed the Katowice Declaration as a commitment to tackle the challenges of rapid urbanisation, the dire consequences of poverty and inequality, and the hazards posed to both humans and the environment by biodiversity loss, climate change, conflicts and natural disasters.

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Final Outcome

In the “Katowice Declared Actions: Transforming our Cities for a Better Urban Future,” WUF11 participants declare their voluntary actions and commitments for the next two years and beyond, including:

• Move from incrementalism towards fundamental shifts in urban environments, systems of governance and forms of habitation, in line with human rights treaties;
• Focus on imminent urban crises such as climate and biodiversity emergencies, pandemics, violence and conflicts, and other natural and man-made disasters, that all converge in cities and surrounding territories;
• Reconfirm culture as a core component of local identity;
• Reconfirm that accessibility and universal design are an integral part of the solution to the challenges of urbanization;
• Encourage all development actors to mobilize their capacities in the UN Decade of Action, and appeal to governments to better fund UN-Habitat.

Stakeholders were encouraged to submit additional Declared Actions until 31 July 2022 through the Urban Agenda Platform. The next World Urban Forum will be hosted in the city of Cairo, the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt, in 2024.

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Following ISOCARP members contributed to this report (in alphabetical order): Dushko Bogunovic, Frank D’hondt, Ganesh Babu, Jens Aerts, Li Fan, Mahak Agrawal, Martina Germanà, Mathias Gorz, Renelle Sarjeant, Sabina Dimitriu and Sebnem Hoskara. The introduction is borrowed from IISD’s “Summary report, 26–30 June 2022”, a useful report complementing the ISOCARP report.