How Participatory Was the Habitat III Process?
A critical view of the improved, but still flawed public participation process leading up to Habitat III.
Voices from La Linière, France
An account from a French refugee camps, talking about mapping, shelter, smugglers and crime, and different ways of participation.
Collecting Citizens’ Voices: Your City Idea
Rashiq from Future Cape Town developed “Your City Idea”, a mobile voting booth for everybody to vote on their ideas for improving the city.
A Critical Perspective on the New Urban Agenda
The main criticisms regarding the New Urban Agenda are its vagueness, the lacking linkages to the SDGS and former HABITAT documents, the focus on cities, neo-liberal tendencies and a grave shortfall of follow-up mechanisms.
Voices from Jhenaidah, Bangladesh
Suhailey from Bangladesh tells the story of how women in a community led the upgrading process.
