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Knowledge keyboard_arrow_right Global Future Cities Programme: Collaborative efforts towards sustainable urbanisation Global Future Cities Programme managers Klas Groth and Naomi Hoogervorst discuss how UN-Habitat and the UK Built Environment Advisory Group are helping to achieve sustainable urbanisation in 19 cities across the globe. 16 March 2021 UN-Habitat’s Urban Lab has been the strategic and capacity building partner to the UK Prosperity Fund's Global Future Cities Programme since 2018, closely collaborating with the UK Built Environment Advisory Gro...

Image credit: Jason Briscoe This year the UK’s Global Future Cities Programme celebrates its one-year anniversary. Through its work the programme has promoted sustainable and inclusive economic growth with transformative projects in three municipalities, City of Cape Town, eThekwini Municipality (Durban), and City of Johannesburg, on transportation and mobility, urban planning, resilience and data innovation in South Africa. In April 2020 the Programme expanded and adapted in response to the COVID-19 crisis in cities. Through this bolstered support, eThekwini Municipality was able t...

Copy The Un-Habitat or the United Nations agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, whose primary focus is to deal with the challenges of rapid urbanization, has been developing innovative approaches in the urban design field, centered on the active participation of the community. ArchDaily has teamed up with UN-Habitat to bring you weekly news, article, and interviews that highlight this work, with content straight from the source, developed by our editors. Around 440 fast-growing cities in emerging economies will contribute by 2025, to nearly half of global economic gr...