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Mayors, elected officials, international organizations and civil society groups issued a declaration this week on the importance of metropolitan areas in sustainable urbanization, the first such document offered as formal input to the Habitat III process.
The declaration was finalized during an intensive two-day “thematic meeting” here presided over by Denis Coderre, the mayor of Montréal and president of the Montréal Metropolitan Community. Delegates debated the parameters of metropolitan areas and their role in the New Urban Agenda, the two-decade urbanization strategy that will come out of next year’s Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador.
Today, metropolitan areas affirm loudly and strongly that they are key players and part of the solution to achieve the goal of sustainable urbanization,” said Coderre. “The New Urban Agenda that will be adopted in Quito will guide U. N. member states on their urban policies for the next 20 years. It’s thus important to recognize the mechanisms that need to be put in place for action at the metropolitan scale”.
In opening remarks that were echoed throughout the thematic meeting on 6-7 October — the second of several such formal gatherings ahead of next year’s U. N. conference on housing and urban development — Habitat III Secretary-General Joan Clos indicated that in his experience, there is no single model of metropolitan governance applicable across countries. To that end, his hope for the contribution of the Montréal Declaration on Metropolitan Areas is to underline the need for enabling legislation.
“The recommendation to member states will be legislation that gives metropolitan areas the tools to respond to urban realities in a much faster way than is happening today,” Clos told Citiscope at the conclusion of the meeting. “The existing jurisdictions don’t reflect the urban reality, and that doesn’t allow the articulation of effective measures”. Entitled “A new multilevel metropolitan cooperation partnership”, the core section of the Montréal Declaration proposes specific language for the New Urban Agenda: to meet challenges and opportunities of global urbanization, all levels of government will have to share a common vision in order to establish coherent strategies aimed at implementing the right to the city and improving quality of life in urban, peri-urban and rural areas.
If we are to meet these many challenges, we must step up our relationships with all levels of government. This is a necessity because economic, social, cultural and environmental development is governed by interdependent public policies. Metropolitan areas thus require cooperation, integration, solidarity and concerted action from all levels of government.
The Montréal Declaration goes on to call for “multi-level metropolitan cooperation partnerships” among multiple levels of government as well as business, labour and community stakeholders in order to achieve effective metropolitan governance grounded in research.
In his comments to Citiscope, Clos indicated that the Montréal meeting also resulted in the formation of an expert group that will follow up on the principles of the declaration by collecting and analyzing case studies of effective metropolitan governance.
The Montréal Declaration comes out at the same time as the Israeli National Habitat Committee puts the finishing touches on the Tel Aviv Declaration on Civic Engagement, following last month’s debut thematic meeting of the Habitat III process. Next month, delegates will convene in Cuenca, Ecuador, to debate the role of intermediate cities in the New Urban Agenda.
This article is culled from daily press coverage from around the world. It is posted on the Urban Gateway by way of keeping all users informed about matters of interest. The opinion expressed in this article is that of the author and in no way reflects the opinion of UN-Habitat
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The declaration was finalized during an intensive two-day “thematic meeting” here presided over by Denis Coderre, the mayor of Montréal and president of the Montréal Metropolitan Community. Delegates debated the parameters of metropolitan areas and their role in the New Urban Agenda, the two-decade urbanization strategy that will come out of next year’s Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador.
Today, metropolitan areas affirm loudly and strongly that they are key players and part of the solution to achieve the goal of sustainable urbanization,” said Coderre. “The New Urban Agenda that will be adopted in Quito will guide U. N. member states on their urban policies for the next 20 years. It’s thus important to recognize the mechanisms that need to be put in place for action at the metropolitan scale”.
In opening remarks that were echoed throughout the thematic meeting on 6-7 October — the second of several such formal gatherings ahead of next year’s U. N. conference on housing and urban development — Habitat III Secretary-General Joan Clos indicated that in his experience, there is no single model of metropolitan governance applicable across countries. To that end, his hope for the contribution of the Montréal Declaration on Metropolitan Areas is to underline the need for enabling legislation.
“The recommendation to member states will be legislation that gives metropolitan areas the tools to respond to urban realities in a much faster way than is happening today,” Clos told Citiscope at the conclusion of the meeting. “The existing jurisdictions don’t reflect the urban reality, and that doesn’t allow the articulation of effective measures”. Entitled “A new multilevel metropolitan cooperation partnership”, the core section of the Montréal Declaration proposes specific language for the New Urban Agenda: to meet challenges and opportunities of global urbanization, all levels of government will have to share a common vision in order to establish coherent strategies aimed at implementing the right to the city and improving quality of life in urban, peri-urban and rural areas.
If we are to meet these many challenges, we must step up our relationships with all levels of government. This is a necessity because economic, social, cultural and environmental development is governed by interdependent public policies. Metropolitan areas thus require cooperation, integration, solidarity and concerted action from all levels of government.
The Montréal Declaration goes on to call for “multi-level metropolitan cooperation partnerships” among multiple levels of government as well as business, labour and community stakeholders in order to achieve effective metropolitan governance grounded in research.
In his comments to Citiscope, Clos indicated that the Montréal meeting also resulted in the formation of an expert group that will follow up on the principles of the declaration by collecting and analyzing case studies of effective metropolitan governance.
The Montréal Declaration comes out at the same time as the Israeli National Habitat Committee puts the finishing touches on the Tel Aviv Declaration on Civic Engagement, following last month’s debut thematic meeting of the Habitat III process. Next month, delegates will convene in Cuenca, Ecuador, to debate the role of intermediate cities in the New Urban Agenda.
This article is culled from daily press coverage from around the world. It is posted on the Urban Gateway by way of keeping all users informed about matters of interest. The opinion expressed in this article is that of the author and in no way reflects the opinion of UN-Habitat
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