Cities of the World
15/01/2023 12:00
I am not a great fan of the British weekly "The Economist", particularly of their recurrent stance against land and housing regulations. However they sometimes produce interesting pieces on urban issues, like the attached article on the positive evolution of Latin American cities.
Cities in Latin...
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21/11/2022 00:00
Daniel Biau, 20 November 2022
Yesterday in Sharm el-Sheikh, COP 27 decided that developed nations should help developing countries pay for the catastrophic consequences of climate change - a “historic” agreement reached after weeks of negotiations and celebrated by the participants.
We should...
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05/10/2022 00:00
The Urban Economy Forum is a Toronto-based initiative that focuses on urban economics and municipal finance. Its 4th session, on “Sustainable Urban Finance”, was held on 3-4 October 2022. Daniel Biau made the short intervention below in one of the round-tables.
Dear Colleagues,
I...
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08/04/2022 09:00
General elections will take place in Kenya in August 2022. It is therefore time to have a look at the country achievements during the last five years.
Launched in December 2017, the “Big Four” Agenda was the Government's set of priority programmes to be implemented from 2018 to 2022. The Big Four...
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01/05/2021 19:37
Présentation du livre "Alioune Badiane, Homme du Futur" dans Global Urban Think Tank.
https://www.urbanistes.info/alioune-badiane-homme-du-futur-un-livre-essentiel/
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01/05/2021 19:31
Presentation of the book "Alioune Badiane, a Man of the Future" in Global Urban Think Tank.
https://www.urbanistes.info/alioune-badiane-a-man-of-the-future-an-essential-book/
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06/10/2020 21:30
The 2nd Urban Economy Forum (UEF) was held virtually from Toronto, Canada, on 5-6 October 2020. Daniel Biau was invited to contribute to a session on urban transformations that might be accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. His paper identifies eleven “shifting paradigms” which are likely to have...
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31/05/2020 10:00
A worldwide survey carried out by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Future of Democracy revealed that the proportion of the global population that was dissatisfied with democracy reached 58% in 2019. At the time of the publication of this study, I had just read three stimulating...
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30/05/2020 10:00
Une enquête mondiale, réalisée par le Centre for the Future of Democracy de l'Université de Cambridge, a révélé que la proportion de la population mondiale insatisfaite de la démocratie atteignait 58 % en 2019. Au moment de la publication de cette étude, je venais de lire trois livres...
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24/05/2020 09:01
Que signifie la pandémie du Covid-19 pour la région dont l’urbanisation est la plus rapide du monde, l’Afrique ?
Les gouvernements et les citoyens africains sont aujourd’hui confrontés aux risques posés par la pandémie, notamment dans les quartiers spontanés, foyers potentiels de...
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Cities of the World
24/05/2020 09:00
COVID-19 is very much an urban disease. What does this mean for the world’s fastest urbanizing region, Africa?
African governments and citizens are today facing head-on the risks posed by the pandemic in African cities (slums as potential transmission hotbeds) as well as the consequences (reduction...
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01/04/2020 00:01
In the aftermath of the 10th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF10), held in Abu Dhabi on 8-13 February 2020, Daniel Biau was interviewed by the President of “Urbanistes sans Frontières” (Urbanists without Borders) and Founder of Global Urban Think Tank, Maggie Cazal, regarding the evolution of...
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01/04/2020 00:00
Au lendemain de la 10eme session du Forum Urbain Mondial (FUM10), qui s’est tenue à Abu Dhabi du 8 au 13 février 2020, Daniel Biau a été interviewé par la Présidente d’Urbanistes sans Frontières et Fondatrice du Global Urban Think Tank, Maggie Cazal, à propos de l’évolution des idées sur les défis...
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01/11/2019 12:00
The 3rd International Conference on National Urban Policy took place in Nairobi on 28-31 October 2019. Daniel Biau delivered the attached keynote speech at the opening session.
Keynote Address ICNUP3.pdf
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01/07/2019 23:59
Today the world counts 7.7 billion inhabitants of which 4.3 billion live in cities (56 % of the total population). In 1980 there were 4.4 billion people of which only 1.7 billion lived in cities (39 %). In 2050, the projections predict 9.8 billion people including 6.7 billion urban dwellers (68...
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07/10/2016 08:00
The UN Conferences on « Cities and other Human Settlements » take place every 20 years (Vancouver 1976, Istanbul 1996, Quito 2016). They constitute important landmarks, identifying urban challenges, opportunities, problems, and proposing principles and solutions applicable all over the...
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01/10/2016 18:45
In October 2016, "The Thinker", the South African quarterly magazine, published the attached analysis which summarizes the challenges facing African Cities and proposes a Plan of Action for re-inventing these troubled cities.
TheThinker on African Cities.pdf (802058)
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06/07/2016 10:09
PCM N⁰ 879 - Août/Septembre 2016
De Vancouver 1976 et Istanbul 1996 à Quito 2016,
La continuité des défis urbains et des engagements politiques
Les démographes prévoient une stabilisation de la population mondiale autour de dix milliards d’humains vers 2070 dont une large...
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10/05/2016 18:33
As part of the preparation of the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III (Quito, October 2016), the Kingdom of Morocco, represented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Policy, has organized in Rabat on 11-12 May 2016, in cooperation with...
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10/05/2016 18:27
Dans le cadre de la préparation de la troisième Conférence des Nations Unies sur le Logement et le Développement Urbain Durable – Habitat III (Quito, octobre 2016) le Royaume du Maroc, représenté par le Ministère de l’Habitat et de la Politique de la Ville, a organisé à Rabat les 11 et 12 mai...
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