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25 mar 2024 · The urban agenda for the EU brings together the Commission, national ministries, city governments and other stakeholders to promote better laws, easier access to funding and more knowledge sharing on issues relevant for cities.
Cities and urban development. The Commission is working together with cities to ensure a good quality of life. See how the Commission helps cities to grow sustainably through sharing of knowledge, funding, and other urban policies and initiatives.
This report incorporates the World Bank's new strategy for an urbanizing world. It recognizes that cities and towns form the frontline in a global campaign to address .
3 kwi 2023 · The World Bank’s work in urban development aims to build sustainable cities and communities through an urbanization process that is green, inclusive, competitive, and resilient, contributing to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.11, to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, as well as to the World Bank’s goals to end extreme ...
But what exactly is a city or an urban area? What is the size threshold for an area to qualify as a city? What type of administrative, legal or historical status defines a city ? How do we distinguish an urban area from a town or a village?
Urban governance, simply defined, is about the formulation and pursuit of collective goals at the local level of the political system. Unlike traditional accounts of urban politics, governance theory makes no prejudgment about which social actors are most central to the pursuit of collective goals.
UN-Habitat is tasked with assisting local governments to effectively capture domestic revenue, improve fiscal decentralization, manage urban displacement and utilize frontier technologies. The Agency has developed the following four principal working areas on governance:
