The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice

Caprotti, Federico; Cowley, Robert; Datta, Ayona; Broto, Vanesa CastÃ¡n; Gao, Eleanor; Georgeson, Lucien; Herrick, Clare; Odendaal, Nancy; Joss, Simon

doi:10.1080/17535069.2016.1275618

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“…An aspect often missing from discussions of global urban agendas is the role of citizens (Caprotti et al 2017;Kaika 2017). Analyses from the implementation of the MDGs have shown that urban poor groups have usually not been involved in the design of interventions meant to assist them, with national or regional consultations involving some civil society groups representing a weak kind of 'participation' (Hasan et al 2005, p. 6).…”

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“…Potential trade-offs and synergies among efforts to reach different goals relate in part to the boundary discussion above. Such interconnections need to be taken into account by all who strive to implement the SDGs and NUA (Caprotti et al 2017;Machingura and Lally 2017;Nilsson et al 2017). Systematically assessing the interactions among different SDG targets can serve to highlight potential conflicts, tradeoffs and synergies among local programmes and policies, as well as among different interest groups at the local, but also international, levels.…”

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Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project

Valencia

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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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The Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda recognise the role of cities in achieving sustainable development. However, these agendas were agreed and signed by national governments and thus implementing them at the local level requires a process of adaptation or localisation. In this paper, we analyse five aspects that practitioners and researchers need to consider when localising them: (1) delimitation of the urban boundary; (2) integrated governance; (3) actors; (4) synergies and trade-offs and (5) indicators. These considerations are interrelated, and while not exhaustive, provide an important initial step for reflection on the challenges and opportunities of working with these global agendas at the local level. The paper draws on the inception phase of an international comparative transdisciplinary research project in seven cities on four continents: Buenos Aires

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Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project

Valencia

Simon

Croese

et al. 2019

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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“…It adopts what appears as an inclusive discourse and acknowledges that equitable and affordable access to water is a right and need that requires particular attention to the vulnerable, and must be achieved through the elimination of legal, institutional, socio-economic and physical barriers. Caprotti et al (2017) warn against the reductionist approach and numerous assumptions made in the NUA, for example on the states' capacities to deliver on multiple commitments. Satterthwaite (2016) reminds us of the importance of keeping NUA coherent, and more importantly advocates for more power transfer to actors (government and non-government actors) at local level.…”

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The liquid politics of an urban age

Diep

2018

Palgrave Commun

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In fragile social and economic societies, water governance systems have rarely managed to meet everyone's needs, but rather misrecognised the demand of those excluded from decision-making structures. Across regions, underlying socio-political issues have often remained unaddressed on the basis that water scarcity is primarily caused by geo-climatic conditions. Exclusionary governance is one central driver to migratory patterns along with instabilities in political regimes. It is reflected in poor service provision and tends to perpetuate injustices. Several commitments of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) set objectives of universal and equitable water provision through multi-stakeholder involvement in urban planning processes. It thereby demonstrates efforts deployed towards 'good governance' for transparent, accountable and participatory decision-making. However, several studies have pointed out the questionable role of citizens in NUA. Building on their argument, the present article reflects on exclusionary patterns that the NUA aims to tackle and the mechanisms it proposes to achieve this. This article aims to highlight how power relations in water governance produce and reproduce exclusion in access, such as through population movements. It questions how NUA envisions water governance structures based on collaboration between multiple stakeholders in different contexts, and highlights the need to scrutinise the people-centric language adopted in its commitments. With references to water politics from Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, it adopts a political ecology approach looking at questions of inclusivity for marginalised groups and discusses approaches for the active involvement of these people in water governance models.

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“…The sustainable development goals seek to "make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" (UN 2016). This statement summarizes and covers most big urban buzzwords of the past two decades, such as climate change and sustainable urban development (Caprotti et al 2017). Sustainable Development Goal 11 is profoundly based on indicators and urban data that are missing in cities of the…”

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Perspectives on geospatial information science education: an example of urban planners in Southern Africa

Musakwa

2017

Geo-spatial Information Science

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Since the introduction of geographic information systems (GIS) in the 1960s, it has evolved tremendously to an extent that it permeates our daily lives. Initially, GIS usage started in the developed countries and now increasingly filtered to developing countries. The town planning profession was one of the early adopters of GIS. Geospatial information is a useful source of data that is needed in urban planning. In these days of the New Urban Agenda 2030, smart cities are even more required from planners in using geospatial information to face urban challenges such as sustainable urban development and climate change. Although GIS has promised a lot for urban planning, it has not reached its full potential. Moreover, many studies have focused on developed countries with limited studies on geospatial information application in municipalities and GIS education from a perspective of developing countries. In this study, a survey on the usage of geospatial information science (GSIS) in two cities, namely Bulawayo in Zimbabwe and Ekurhuleni in South Africa, was conducted, and an overview of the state of GIS curricula in planning schools is discussed. The results indicate that considerable progress has been made in the application of geospatial information in municipal planning; however, there are impediments limiting the full utilization of geospatial information in local municipalities. These impediments include: inadequate GIS curricula in planning schools, lack of resources, and lack of political will. These challenges manifest differently in well-resourced municipalities and those with limited resources. The study proposes planning-relevant GIS curricula to improve the level of GIS use in planning practice.

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The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice

Cited by 261 publications

References 28 publications

Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project

Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project

The liquid politics of an urban age

Perspectives on geospatial information science education: an example of urban planners in Southern Africa

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