World Urban Forum 2020

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The world’s largest conference for sustainable urban development – World Urban Forum (WUF10) took place in early February 2020 in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi. The convener of the World Urban Forum is UN-Habitat, who organised the conference for the tenth time. SLU arranged two successful panel discussions and strengthened SLU’s position on the urban agenda.

The World Urban Forum addresses one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanisation and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. SLU's participation 2020 was supported by SLU Global and led by Zeinab Tag-Eldeen, Researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, and coordinator of the Research Platform Sparking Research into Global Transformation.

SLU Urban Futures Programme Director Lisa Diedrich moderated the panel discussion 'Beyond informality: Informal settlements as contemporary urban heritage'. The platform also invited Australian landscape architect and professor Julian Raxworthy, currently resident in the United Arab Emirates, to monitor and report from the forum.

UN Habitats's report from WUF10

Read the 'Report of the Tenth Session of the World Urban Forum' here.
The report summarises WUF10’s presentations, debates, encounters and Urban Expo.

  • 13,333 attendees from 169 countries.
  • 642 thought leaders, speakers and moderators from
    99 countries.
  • 49 speakers from 25 Least Developed Countries.
  • 52 per cent of speakers in the main programme sessions
    were women.
  • High-level delegates: one head of state, one head of
    government, 49 ministers, 64 deputy ministers, close to
    100 mayors and numerous vice-mayors.
  • More than 500 high-quality events for knowledge exchange,
    collaboration and debate.

 

Articles from the World Urban Forum 2020

Sharing urban issues in the Global South – looking back at the 10th World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi

by Julian Raxworthy

SLU breaks new ground for sustainable urban development (scroll down for English version)

Resurs, March 2020, by Hanna Weiber-Post

WUF10: To leave no one behind, urban areas need cleverly conceived digital instruments!

by Julian Raxworthy

Developers‘ profit can fund public urban infrastructure

by Julian Raxworty

More global and urban than ever – SLU at the 10th World Urban Forum

by Lisa Diedrich and Zeinab Tag-Eldeen

Tanzanian-Swedish collaboration at the World Urban Forum 2020

SLU Globals blog. By: Edson Sanga, Happiness Mlula, Lazaro Mngumi, Maglan Sang’enoi and Said Nuhu.

Opening WUF10: towards a bottom-up approach to culture

by Julian Raxworthy

 

Facts:

Events at the Forum where SLU participated:

Monday 10 February
Urban-Rural Nexus: Challenges and innovations to govern land, municipal and ecosystem services, on the fringes of resource constrained cities and small towns
12:30 - 13:30
Hall 3, Room 18

Wednesday 12 February
Beyond informality: Informal settlements as contemporaneous urban heritage
18:00-18:45
Urban Library

 

SLU projects presented at the Forum:
  • Unlocking the Potentials of Youth Social Movements to Foster Societal Resilience
  • Connecting City2Arts

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