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David
Satterthwaite
May 2015
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2.
1989
Small alternative journal
(and Mayu in 1983)
Prioritize authors from the global south; include
practitioners
We did everything:
• generating mailing list
• Stuffing each issue in envelopes & posting them
• selling and chasing subscribers
• Labels with a dot matrix printer held together with string

3.
Now – 27 years later
• 10,000 subscribers
• 1000 papers
• 16,000 pages
• 3 million downloads
• Academically respectable impact factor
• Sage Publications doing boring stuff
• 4,000 enemies
• Why I cannot get another job

4.
Habitat III
Meant to produce The New Urban Agenda
Better than the 1996 Habitat Agenda?
• Sustainable what?
• Where is climate change?
Habitat III’s advantage
• SDGs
• Paris Agreement
• What needs to be done agreed
• Issue now is how, with what, by whom

5.
What gets local government to act
Healthy cities movement
Participatory budgeting
Local Agenda 21s
Make cities resilient (DRR)
(Also hundreds of local governments with commitments
to climate change mitigation)

6.
Why do they act?
• Simple clear messages
• Appealed to democratically elected city
governments (responding to local risks)
• Local government wanting to engage
• Limitation: not binding
• but for some, eg making my city resilient, there is
report back on progress on agreed goals

7.
What is there to push in The
New Urban Agenda
• Potential advantages of urban contexts
for meeting SDGs and Paris Agreement
• Highlight role of local government and
local civil society as co-producers of
solutions
• More than 30 nations with representative
organizations/federations of slum shack
dwellers to drive new solutions