Inclusive Urbanisation and SDGs

Inclusive Urbanisation and SDGs

• The 2030 Agenda promises Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are “integrated and indivisible” and “leave no-one behind”. Yet goals listed have historically been pursued in ways that bring them into conflict with each other.
• In most countries in Asia and Africa, populations are both growing and urbanising. Indeed, almost all of the world’s population growth is concentrated in these countries’ towns and cities. As in urbanising countries in the past, their governments are attracted by the economic advantages of cities, but worried by urbanisation and fearful of too many poor people crowding into the cities and ....