The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice. Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Caprotti, Federico; Cowley, Robert; Datta, Ayona; Broto, Vanesa Castán; Gao, Eleanor; Georgeson, Lucien; Herrick, Clare; Odendaal, Nancy; Joss, Simon
• Is Part Of: Urban research & practice. Volume 10:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 367
• Page End: 378
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Sustainable Development Goals -- SDG 11 -- urban indicator -- New Urban Agenda -- global urban policy; Sociology, Urban -- Periodicals; 307.7605
• DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2016.1275618
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-5069

Abstract

Abstract : The UN-HABITAT III conference held in Quito in late 2016 enshrined the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with an exclusively urban focus. SDG 11, as it became known, aims to make cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable through a range of metrics, indicators, and evaluation systems. It also became part of a post-Quito 'New Urban Agenda' that is still taking shape. This paper raises questions around the potential for reductionism in this new agenda, and argues for the reflexive need to be aware of the types of urban space that are potentially sidelined by the new trends in global urban policy.