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Article: World Urban Forum Calls for Sustainable Urbanization
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 4, 2002
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by Wang Jingzhong
NAIROBI, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The first ever World Urban Forum
concluded here on Friday at the Headquarters of the UN Human
Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), with participants agreeing that
sustainable urbanization is crucial to national and global
sustainable development and to the providing of adequate shelter for
all urban dwellers.
During the five-day session, more than 1,000 participants, almost
twice as many than expected, discussed a range of issues from the
effect of HIV/AIDS on human settlements to violence against women,
but the overall theme of discussions focused on sustainable
urbanization.
Participants agreed that cities have a leading role in ...