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Urban Future 1
DEVELOPMENT
COOPERATION WITH CITIES
from 1970s to 2020s
Lecture series Nov – Dec 2016
Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro-Hargrave, PhD - Urban Geography
Photo: UN-Habitat Bangladesh
The focus
Global urbanisation discourse analysis:
 How is world’s urbanisation managed towards more sustainable cities
(and the planet)? How has this evolved?
 Who are the key actors in the scene?
 What are the targets and means? What kind of processes define
these?
 What is the current picture of urbanisation?
The global context
in a nutshell
Cities today occupy approximately only
0.5% of the total land…however:
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The global context
Recognition of cities as means of achieving
overall positive global development (not threat)
 Urbanization as an endogenous source of sustainable
development as well as a tool for social integration
and equity
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The Urban Millennium
 Globally, more people live in urban than in rural areas now:
54 % of the world’s population resided in urban areas in
2014…and increasing
 The number of urban residents growing by nearly 70
million every year
 Density, proximity and economies of urbanization and
agglomeration constitute the transformative power of 4
urbanization…
The transformative power of urbanization
The urban population of
Africa in 2020 will be equal
to the total population of
Europe (and larger than
that of LAC)
In 2010 Asia, 1,85 billion
people lived in urban
areas, generating 33 %
of world economic
output
By 2050, the world urban population will almost
double with 70% of the projected 8.9 billion
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UN-Habitat 2014
Trends…
Megacities
The growth of
“mega-cities”
1950 – 2015
- Mainly coastal
- Increasingly
Asian mega-cities
UN-Habitat 2012
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Trends in figures
 50% of urban population lives in cities < 500,000
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Global trends in figures
 Focus on solving issues in medium sized cities
 Increasingly…
…north – south divide vanishing, south-south
…common challenges, solutions, exchange of
experiences, experts, tools and more
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The new urban paradigm 2016
The debate during 2015-2016 called for
 a review of the global urban agenda and
 Revision of urban paradigm to address the persistence
of an unsustainable model of urbanisation
… taking into consideration
 The need to reduce inequalities, marginalization and slums
 The need to oppose urban sprawl and the unnecessary loss of
agricultural land
 The need to reduce urban vulnerability and risks to disaster
and climate change
 The need to promote local economic development based on
safeguarded natural and cultural assets (‘green growth’)
 […as well as local priorities!]
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UN-Habitat 2014
The urban future
“Cities are were the battle for sustainable
development will be won or lost” (the key
argument of “urbanists” since 2013)
It is becoming globally recognised that
achievements on sustainable development will
depend on
how we will
manage and
guide
urbanization
…
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Why this lecture, why now?
Realisation of the Urban
Millennium:
…SDGs 2015-2030 in Oct 2015
 specific target on cities
…Climate compact in Dec 2015
 cities as major stakeholders
… 3rd UN conference on Housing and Sustainable
Urban Development (“Habitat III”) in 17-20 Oct 2016
 signed the final New Urban Agenda
 Defining conventions on the new paradigm in
urban development …. towards social, economic and
environmental sustainability
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Lecture overview
1 Introduction
- Overview to the international
support agenda on cities &
urbanization from the 1970s to 2020s
- Shaping of global urban
development goals and frameworks
2 Global development cooperation on
sustainable cities and urbanisation
- The ‘Sustainable Cities and
Communities’ targets among SDGs
2015-2030
- The ‘New Urban Agenda‘ debate and
the ‘Habitat III’ agreement for 20172036
3-4 Focus areas of the New Urban
Agenda
- Global priority areas of urban
development: inclusive, compact, safe,
resilient and sustainable cities
5 Implementation of the New Agenda
- Approaches to achieving resolutions:
Urban policies, legal frames, urban
governance, mobility,...
- Participation, local economy, spatial
planning, climate change
adaptation, green growth
strategies,…
7 Resilience and cities
- Planning for urban disaster risk
reduction, disaster recovery
Tools for managing sustainable,
resilient city development
- Assistance to city leaders and
planners
10-11 Development programmes on
urban development
- Case studies from cities
Lectures 6, 8, 10, 12 – Group work
13 Final exam
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Course credits & assessment
For 2 study points:
• participation in minimum 10 out of 13
course meetings (no lecture on 6
Dec)
• reading materials provided in
‘Matskut’ prior to the meetings
• brief written work (0.5-1 page)
prepared individually for
discussion/group work sessions on
selected themes (on Thu 17/11,
24/11, 1/12, 8/12, tentatively)
• Final course exam on Thu 15 Dec
• exam marks by Dec 20
• queries, suggestions? Please
ask/write
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education
University of Helsinki
MSc in Regional
Planning /
Geography, 1996
Minors
• Political Science/
International Relations
• Development Studies
• Urban Planning
King’s College,
Univ. of London:
PhD in Urban Studies,
2003
Thesis: Post-industrial
urban regeneration
policies & projects)
(in Liverpool Univ.)
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employment
Assignments in
administration and
lecturing at the
Universities of
Helsinki and London
1998-2003
Special Assistant to
the United Nations
country head in
Malawi, Southern
Africa for 2 yrs in
2004-2006
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urban sector work
2006-2008 Kenya
Regional and
Urban Policy Expert
• Needs Assessment on urban infrastructure and land in
cooperation with the World Bank ja UN agencies in Somalia
• Represented UN-Habitat in the Somalia Transition Plan
negotiation process
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Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro 2011
FIELD ASSIGNMENTS
Urban & regional planning
Somaliland 2008
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Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro 2010
urban sector work
2008-2012
Kenya Human
Settlements
Officer
Manager of the
Somalia Local
Governance and
Service Delivery
Programme in
charge of
planning,
coordination and
leading the urban
expert team
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Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro 2008
urban sector work
2012-2015, Japan,
Human Settlement
Officer, Regional
Office for Asia and
the Pacific
• Adviser for governments
and technical decisionmakers of cities in
sustainable urbanisation
& programming
• Organisational strategic
planning and knowledge
management of UNHabitat in Asia-Pacific
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Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro 2013
sustainable urbanisation
policies & projects
Nepal, Bhutan
Cambodia, Viet Nam
Mongolia …. examples
Viet Nam:
•Urban green growth -led provincial
development strategies
•Climate change adaptation in
coastal cities (Da Nang Hoi An)
South Korea: 2013
Suwon EcoMobility festival
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Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro 2013
…and re-designing urban policies
& structures, Mongolia
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Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro 2013
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