Theme 3 - Localizing Goal 11 of the SDGs and The New Urban Agenda
The Conference will discuss the relevant SDGs - Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. Goal 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities) and targets (e.g. 11.3, 11.a) adopted in 2015 as well as the New Urban Agenda, to be adopted in the Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, and its expected impacts in the practice of African Urban Planning. It will also provide the opportunity for comparisons, particularly between African cities and those elsewhere in the Global South.
Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following ones:
•The shift in urban planning paradigms and the building of new urban governance structures
•Sustainable and resilient urban development for social inclusion and poverty eradication
•The planning and management of urban spatial development
• Unplanned town-planning: bottom-up approaches and resilient ways of planning the city of tomorrow and reinventing the city of today; insurgent urbanism
•Land grabbing and Urban Planning
•Urban planning in small island states
•Supra-national spatial planning in landlocked countries
•Planning in post conflict, in post disaster contexts and for internally displaced persons
•The policies of the Global North towards African cities in relation to Goal 11: the international puzzle of SDGs initiatives in planning