UN Habitat's mission:
"... to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all."
Didn't check out the whole site, or other pubs, or even this one, although I did down load it.
I find it somewhat interesting that long term planning or interest in urban life exists at a global level.
Cities are the "eternal" measure of human organization even if they started out as quite a messy business.
Those who lived in early cities were beset by diseases unknown amongst the hunter gatherers/horticulturalists who proceeded them.
However, calendars, accounting, writing, division of labor, concentration of labor and markets in cities supported by agriculture was a far more stable way of life.
And, ultimately unsustainable. Because it provides for unlimited human population growth. Ooops.
I think the mission statement is difficult to achieve regardless of what adequate means.
The demands of the world's biggest cities will be incredible over the next decades.
Frish
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