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What does it mean for a city to be "fragile?"

Want sustainable urban development? Time for Local Agenda 2030

Event: Reimagining Communities Symposium

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C itiscope writer Gabriela Rico talks to Robert Muggah,  research director at the  Igarapé Institute , to find out more about the Fragile Cities Data Visualization, a new data tool that attempts to measure fragility  in  2,100 cities around the globe, based on data on population growth, air pollution, terrorist killings and other metrics. Throughout the interview, Muggah discusses the current and future plans for the tool, why measuring fragility is so important, and what the data will mean for the resilience of cities worldwide. As urban resilience is one of our key policy topics, IHC Global is optimistic that this tool will discover new approaches to achieving resilience, and will facilitate solutions that are designed to suit individual cities.

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In the aftermath of Habitat III, uncertainty remains over how effective the New Urban Agenda will be in achieving what it has set out to do. Sustainable urban development is an ambitious goal, and Citiscope writer Teresa Ribera examines two challenges that the New Urban Agenda falls short on: harmonizing with other global agreements like the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreements, and giving clear guidelines for its own aims. These shortcomings leave a gaping hole in global strategy for sustainable urban development, especially in terms of localization. Ribera argues that the next step should be a new initiative called Local Agenda 2030, inspired by Local Agenda 21.

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After the long holiday break, Urban Institute will be back imagining urban futures with a new event, Reimagining Communities. The event will be a peer-learning meeting of business and civic leaders, policy experts and practitioners and will explore several issues that are taking on the urban scene, including emerging technologies, persisting poverty and income inequality, and the changing face of the workforce.

When: January 23, 2017

8:30 AM- 4:00 PM

Where: Capital One Conference Center

8036 Dominion Pkwy, Plano, Texas 75024

To register, click here.

• Bridging the gap: learn about the challenge to connect physically divided cities here.

• Athens' resilience chief talks to Greenbiz about how cities should tackle immigration here.

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• New Year, new progress: Guardian Cities writes a wish list for cities in 2017 here.

• Bundle up with Citylab and find the joy in urban winters here.

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