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Article: Africa's exploding cities.(United Nations Habitat's World Urban Forum III )
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- African Business
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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The UN-Habitat's World Urban Forum III which was held in Vancouver, Canada in June was perhaps the most significant global congregation so far of this new millennium. The theme was 'Sustainable cities'. The first ever UN Conference on Human Settlements was held 30 years ago, also in Vancouver. At that time, one third of the world's population lived in urban areas; today, 50% of the human population is urbanized and the trend is growing rapidly, especially in the developing world. Africa has the world's fastest rate of urbanization.
The task of the conference was to gaze into the crystal ball and work out policies and processes to make the cities of the future ...