TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE CITIES WE NEED: AN OBLIGED WAY IN ORDER TO SAVE LIFE ON OUR LOVELY PLANET

During the 2014 International Conference of NGOs (ICNGOs), ISOCARP presented a request in a view to adding a crucial issue relating to a vision for urban planning facing the current challenges of urbanization everywhere in the world.
After the 38th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO, held in 2015, ISOCARP proposed to set up an event on the matter, as a follow-up of the Durban Congress ‘‘Cities we Have vs. Cities we Need’’.
The draft proposal, written before the Durban Congress, was presented in the framework of the Participation Program of UNESCO, in accordance with the priorities and programs of the Organization, with the support of two National Commissions for UNESCO as requested.

In December 2016 the Director-General of UNESCO approved the ISOCARP request submitted under the Participation Programme for 2016-17.

The special ISOCARP-UNESCO Event was held prior to the 53rd ISOCARP Congress in Portland, Oregon, USA, on 23 October 2017.

Please read the final report that was made by Janine Marin, ISOCARP ambassador at UNESCO.

ISOCARP UNESCO SPECIAL EVENT PORTLAND OREGON_OCTOBER 2017

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