Mike Cohen, Director of the Global Urban Futures Project, on the British vote to leave the E.U. and what it means for the New Urban Agenda to be prepared for the Habitat III conference in Quito.
"The revised draft of the New Urban Agenda released on 18 June largely ignores the possible impacts of external events — other than climate change — on the economic, social and political conditions in cities. Its 17 pages and dozens of commitments for cities to contribute to what the United Nations has defined as sustainable development exist in a “timeless” framework, as if what happens in London, New York, São Paulo, Manila or Mexico City does not depend in part on global and national economies".
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