Smart 'Slums Friendly' Sanctuary Cities! UN SDGs/Habitat -P-A-T-H- Glocal-Rurban Work-Tank : 'Right to the City! for ALL?

Where is the place for a Citizen in a City? Considering Habitat for everyone- just like birds animals and trees.. people increasingly loosing ground.. If we need to work together to improve the conditions and work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the UN New Urban Agenda makes it further convoluted and not implementable, we need to do better. Glocal-Rurban-Worktank hopes to review, humor, disrupt, complement our time .. seeking suggesting working Solutions ..Problems to the Solutions and solutions to the problems :)

https://www.habitat3.org/

Cities expanding rapidly (more building, land grab, pollution, deforestation, mining, dumping) over countryside.. United Nations Habitat -formerly UN Agency for Human Settlements UNCHS went on setting "Global Agenda on Urbanization & Environment" 40 years in the making after 1st Habitat Conference 1976 in Vancouver, Second in 1996 (+5) Istanbul and recent HABITAT III at Quito Ecuador setting "New Urban Agenda" for 2016-36 with 48,000 attendees, students & staff.. millions of hours of jet/auto fuel burned.. What such mega United Nation Events mean? What's accomplished at what cost? Many Meetings of select experts across the globe and every two years World Urban Forums again thousands ferrying around and accomplishing what??

world Urban forum <Habitat> www Rurban forum

Urban Development devastating countryside: water for the cities, mining for materials- concrete steel sand (also glass) cement stone for building, coal/oil for fuel/electricity for cities/industries - Deforestation for furniture, home building, paper.. take it all the the sucked dry deserted countrysides got NO thought or allocation (except as a place to export contamination from the 'City' ) Garbage media and entertainment besides the employment everything is in the Cities and the New 'Urban' Agenda again calls for improving the city - .. nicer parks, rapid transportation, smart systems .. indifferent, uninformed, unintentional and intentional exploitation of realms beyond the city wasteful world Urban forum <Habitat> www Rurban forum

Greenfield/New Cities/Settlements -however Smart or Resilient -as seductively simulated (the computerealistic renderings and reports are sexy and suavv -includes all the right language and datasets- promotions only costs in millions -very sophisticated technical know-how -and so these consultants- however smart - far removed from ground realities) - have evolved as special 'land grab' vehicles for Urban Development -as well as mining/deforestation for water, materials and energy for new urban development - the parched, denuded lands - if not grabbed yet forced to abandon - dumping grounds for garbage and contamination Africa - Asia Arabia or Americas ... United Nations 'High Level' got to grapple Land Grab

Click for documents or details at https://www.habitat3.org/the-new-urban-agenda/policy

UN Resolutions with no teeth for implementation IMHO Question Remains: What was 'New' In this 'New Urban Agenda'? and after ALL said & done spending hundreds of millions of dollars - no one can point to "What was One Singular Message? for one, how about ensuring equitable participation "no one left behind" Some 'Stakeholders' are savvy and resourceful, some or not - At this time world is still majority mofussil even as City population rapidly multiplying - elderly and women left behind and in the Municipalities -the mixed migrant form/add to what is "Informal Economies" they practically run the city services and drivers of change yet invisible, unrecognized, without permits, 'illegal' 'undocumented' .. routinely bulldozed and evicted from their shacks, slums or 'informal settlements' UN Habitat 2 and Istanbul +5 recognized this factor for "Cities Without Slums" however in past 20 years it's evident Nation-States establishing "Slum Clearance Boards" - better out of site and out of sight :-( this vast so called informal sector have no space - no policy in the city.. Smart Cities and Resilient City Officers need to consider Data Poverty - where majority of the citizen -devoid of data -fail to figure in any programs, budgets and schedules - making policy patterns of (urban) development deeply flawed .. way forward to 2016-36 Habitat IV need be "Slum Friendly Cities"

World Urban Forum 11 to be held in 2022 (will start May 2017 with a call for expression the website posts) ..World Urban Forum (WUF9) taking place in only 5 months yet got no theme or concept to discuss yet - the website is blank!

it makes absolutely no sense thousands of people going to these place with enormous expenses , effort and an obnoxious carbon footprints! in our era of ICT and smart Apps - its really easy to accomplish the works online - it would ensure open -equitable and increased participation how about www Rurban Forums as Net Zero Complement towards UN Habitat IV

Going back to WUF 2 at Barcelona - 2004 little left accessible online - although for the first time - I recall online discussions with slum children in Africa and women from Arab world! providing input via e-groups online .. now World Urban Forum (WUF10) scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2020..

WUFs should consider clear field context such as "Sanctuary Cities" besides routine 'Agenda 2030 along with (aspirational) SDGs. Available ICT, Apps provide substantial savings with ease in the hands of everyone.. Educate, empower, equalize ..while save tremendous travel time and effort, allows diverse participation, easy record keeping with open online interactive meetings and conferences.. space for comments and recommendations, Problems and Solutions, Commitments, Partnerships, Database for Best and Worst Practices..

WUF9 should take up 'Sanctuary Cities' as a central theme toward Implementation of NUA and the 'Right To The City' the context is very clear for Americas now as UN Nation-State Members Vs Cities and Municipalities square off at courts and at borders on fundamental issues of Habitat. Asia and Africa also Municipalities only can respond to glocal climate change, and basic services and human rights (and not leaving behind Arab World for plight of migrant workers who build and run the cities ..

Build bigger walls' 'Send them back' are in vogue (#Trump) 'lose-lose' situation for everything beyond cities - new 'Urban' agenda already left behind the 'Habitat' - Municipalities devour materials, labor and return great garbage, contamination, destroying ecosystems for the 'informal economies.. While Clinton claims "It Takes a Village!"

?UN Habitat 3 'New Urban Agenda' repeats aspiration SDGs ..but in a pile of pages oblivious of context e.g. the tsunamis of Nationalism Right across the Nations or the series of (relatively mild) seismic shocks that devastated Japan Italy and Coastal Ecuador on same day mid April 2016..

Nobel Nominated SDInet.org & -P-A-T-H- demonstrate some Solutions at Habitat 3 although somehow the 'Call for Solutions' vanished midway through the conference prep-cons ..Click Here to see a recent award/article outlining (parts) processes (don't miss photo-slides there how the poorest coming together & improving environment) https://www.archdaily.com/784317/SPARC-wins-2016-curry-stone-design-prize (Makrand Bhoot as Resident Architect for SPARC/SDI, also recipient of World Habitat Awards, with diverse housing & environmental enhancement projects involved on and off for more than 25 years with these micro-saving networks of the most underprivileged peoples collectives across Asia & Africa .. ) In this incremental blog my effort is to bring effective solutions and missing voices .. recommend World Urban Forum Feb 2018 should be entirely online minimizing travel saving valuable time, transit anxiety and (burning jet/auto fuel) or Carbon Foot Print viz "Deep DeCorbonization" at COP 2015 Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference } defunct {https://deepdecarbonization.org/research-methods/ddpp-collective-toolkit/ :(

where those beyond cities gonna go as their land, water, forests are taken (farmers suicides, armed conflicts, extinct birds, animals, species, languages, tribes- that's the trend the current rhetoric- by and for the Urbane- no rural voice/policy maker here- all professors and professionals are products of the city - so the thought is for the city- more livable the cities - less 'right to the city'

... the 10 MDGs and 17 SDGs remain aspirations - the City is increasingly un-affordable for the Cityzen, where is the place for the migrants - can they stay at the traffic islands, Our young executives live in bunk apartments, one can not lie down at park benches in the securecity? Cities are removing seats in the park And there is Life under Oceans! In all practicality the Municipalities now should plan for equitably accommodating double the population by 2036 - embrace it's poor, huddled masses - an equivocal right to the city for every citizen

Wonder what is the juice of the matter? What would we get out of UN?? The City States Urbane Municipalities taking care of themselves as good as it gets -it's the endangered Countryside that need be top priority for the cities to sustain

Are there any solutions to improve housing, cities, habitat? Are these only aspirations like 10 MDGs (Year 2000) and 17 SDGs (2015) Have you read WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN #TheCityWeNeed ? There is also #TheCityWeWant !! Download it: https://buff.ly/2aTxJHS The 10 Principles of The #WorldUrbanCampaign The global partnership platform for #UrbanThinkers

#TheRurbanThinkers:) The Urban Thinkers Campus -reviewing all the Principles & Partners (above) wondering about The City 'They' Need The City They Want? IMHO consider adding the following points 

 11. #CityWeWant Shall NOT Dump On The Countryside

12. #CityWeNeed Shall NOT Suck The Countryside

13. extend Unequivocal Right To The City i.e. Local ID Secure Tenure for ALL

Calling for "Quito Protocol" Unequivocal Right of "City for ALL"

The New Urban Agenda" Zero Draft now ready after Earth Week Consultative Sessions at UN HQ New York puts all it's eggs in the "city" and aspires to make the basket pretty.. livable, green, sustainable .. in reality increasingly un-affordable/congested/polluted to live even for the affluent/literate/urbane ... Anything at UN is 'High Level' eg a routine seminar on recent projects at the nearby American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY.org) becomes a 'High Level Panel on Urban Infrastructure' by the 'Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization' ..one may think that world's architects and engineers are working together to change the world - yet after the 'High Level' UN Meeting everyone goes home and then meet only in the next such seminar, in the meanwhile glossy reports with people shaking hands pop up across the global professional journals .. there is no follow up or mechanism at UN Habitat, even people who sit at the high chairs at these high level panels don't know each other what they are doing or not doing.. there appears little effort on 'Partnerships' and little percolates to projects for real ..

 the Habitat 3 Policy papers make no mention of countryside (well see 'indigenous' - point out urbane scholars.. cities are 'inclusive territories' ..go figure .. when we are highlighting solutions eg BRTS for Transportation and Pollution.. policymakers only have urban and periurban population in mind - lack of transportation for villagers would trap migrants and further increase burden on cities and further pressure on city services and city sustainability and so further focus on cities and the cycle of countryside ignorance, indifference, neglect and disregrd for the larger Habitat continues- "New Urban Agenda" means what? we need to simplify the message emerging out of the conferences

Urban Areas import all the water for the cities, damns are killing the rivers, Mountains are flattened for - concrete steel sand cement stone for building, coal/oil for fuel/electricity for cities/industries - Forests are cut for homes, furniture, paper, take all the the sucked dry deserted villages got NO thought or allocation (except as a place to export contamination from the 'City' ) Garbage media and entertainment besides the employment everything is in the Cities and the New 'Urban' Agenda again calls for improving the city - or unintentionally suggests further sucking from everywhere that's beyond the city .. nicer parks, public transportation, better institutions .. how about Rurban Agenda? 

town people have to come to the city - Municipality tells them to go back (thanks to Habitat 2, Istanbul+5 .. 'Secure Tenure' evolved as a tool to deal with evictions, Now Calls for building walls is in vogue! We again deliberate on language back and forth.. Open Green, BRTS, SUTP, Gender Equity .. when US President unleashed Federal decree and banished certain Nationalities - the Supreme Courts and some States declared "Sanctuary Cities" eg New York, Chicago, San Francisco started issuing Municipal ID cards (as against National IDs) to allow the marginalized populations to exist, to access city services and resources that the poorest disproportionately contribute to yet hardly credited for running the cities fundamental functions -such as sanitation.

As we recommend making cities Livable/Resilient regardless they suck of the resources from the countryside - unintended consequences of "New Urban Agenda" rather than a "New Habitat Agenda" propelling population to the cities -where are country people (or those displaced by climate change, conflicts) going to go in the City???? on dead rivers? can sit in a park (but no benches) or play ground - but is't that rightfully for players!) stand on the foot path (if there is one) 35% land under streets but that's rightfully for cars/auto) actually there already no place but home bunk or office cubicle to rightfully 'belong'..

WHERE IS THE PLACE FOR THE CITIZEN IN THE CITY and so IMHO the singular slogan "Quito Protocol" is Unequivocal Right for The City For ALL The Zero Draft would rapidly become the final draft and already the process of making, editing, adding, checking this text, words, phrases so cumbersome - I think the scholars involved are tired and hopeless - they need some fresh country air .. .. if not out of the 100s of papers - what message we are deriving from Habitat3? Who would fathom that .. Stakeholders!

Consequences of Climate Change and The Conference Carbon Footprint Don't we have all the experts and agencies involved ... as the leading authors/editors of the numerous Policy Position Papers now Zero'ed - and if their own laments are evident in their own positions/publications on Habitat or "Global Agenda on Urbanization & Environment" then what is "New" one may ask coming out of what would be 100,000 Hours of jet fuel (and 1,000,000 hours of auto fuel + scholars/professors midnight oil burnt ;-) for the Urban Forum mega parties between Nairobi and New York to and fro Quito?!

Habitat III Conference at Quito Ecuador mid October (45,000 participants, officials, Diplomats - half of them from overseas) Auto fuel burned not counted, let alone paper, ink and trash.. Carbon Calculations for the 'Prep-Conferences' across the globe: New York, Nairobi, Mexico City, Singapore, Surabaya etc etc NOT counted (nobody cares effectiveness of this fat spending - in the name of the weakest) for what it turned out to be a lame duck "New Urban Agenda" even all the contributors, GAP constituents, various national Representatives, speakers, authors, scholars now agree- it is a useless, tooth less bundle of documents - and for the conference extravaganza - nobody could have attended any of other events and happenings than what they came for - given 400 different seminars scattered in the sprawling campus devoid of any directions - it's impossible to attend the 40 different meetings at the same hour -so WHAT'S THE POINT GETTING EVERYONE AT ONE PLACE? 2018 February World Urban Forum again would get a gathering of the same IS IT WORTH IT?

Leaving a wider gap in the Ozone Layer nullifies all the talking and writing about sustainable environment & urbanization. Conference could have been far better accomplished ONLINE - and perhaps there would have been better and equitable participation and better outcome .. those who can afford the expenses and those who can find the TIME .. so much individual energy wasted as little else can be done during transit and in flights - lugging the luggage, logistics, jet lags and anxiety, language and loss in translations - Having a conference in this manner is utterly obnoxious - further Habitat III completely ignored the fact that Ecuador's Coastal Countryside is devastated by Earthquake - there was no mention, lecture or seminar leave alone any tour or guidance for anybody even to learn about Disasters as Critical Factor for 'Habitat' ignore we may for some time yet the nature's warnings ...

ANY KEY LESSONS ?after all said & done : WHAT YOU REMEMBER from UN HABITAT III or from THE NEW URBAN AGENDA??

We are not excited about what these 1000+ Papers are proposing. Not so far. Yet got to pour over them, because next 20 years are our time to make the difference. Aren't we the best the planet has got? So far is our best good enough? Are we gonna see some solutions?  

SDI (Shack/Slum Dwellers International) not all are aware of even at UNCHS, not American Institute of Architects or Planners for sure .. United Nations @Habitat3 seems to have it covered yet taking no notes of IBM Bloomberg .. Smart Cities Council ..as 100s of Cities adopting seductive master plans heavily banking on financing from unlocking urban land and further acquisition of farmland 

SLUM FREINDLY CITIES ...Not Slum Free Cities, Cities without Slums, Slum Clearance, Slum Eradication .. bulldozing slums, demolishing shacks is a costly and useless government excercise that fails to fix the problem as the poor has no alternative but to come back to the city, to swamps they stabilize and find place to house themselves, feed and sustain themselves - a duty the Cities failing miserably  )

Slum Dwellers subsidize City Services (and Carbon Footprints) as Slums (informal, illegal Settlements, economies) use minimal land, water, electricity, significant production yet minimal consumption, no safety, healthcare or insurance yet provide 70% of the minimal wage workforce (and almost equal or more payers of direct/indirect taxes, revenue) as compared to Homeowners, Market Forces enjoying the best of the planets resources subsidized at slum dweller's cost and the rich are returning enormous waste, garbage, contamination 

SO THE SOLUTIONS MUST SEEK SLUM POPULATION PARTICIPATION

Slums informal settlements grassroots informal economies pool of savings, data, tools of community survival, resilience 

Learning Key: Consider the Term "Data Poverty" it's is not same as Data on Poverty (plentiful) but the poor or no information from informal settlements, seniors and silent sectors Information Technology sure suggests increasing efficiency in e-governance - improved agency (computers) coordination should improve efficiency for citizen services - SDI's "Know Your Cities" warming up to the plate for 'Data Gaps' - information from the majority informal settlements and informal businesses, labor ..

Sidewalk Labs is the 'Urban Startup' from Alphabet (The Google Company) the all encompassing 'Knowledge Management' Company or the Global Consulting Corporations now dwelling in 'Urban Informatics'

data from those beyond smart phone or social media, or have no phone or formal status are majority on this planet - nothing is gonna sustain without counting/accounting for the informal sector.. and then there is trees, animals and the silent ecosystem - Big Data Apps offer hope - the elderly non computer savvy senior leadership should not look at it as- bullet trains, hi- wi-fi, bio mimic resilient rings- mega infrastructure pork ..

NO COLLEGES (EXIST) TO OFFER SKILL SET FOR SMART CITIES! THEN WHERE IS THE TIME FOR TRAINING THE BUREAUCRACY? WHAT QUALIFIES YOU AS A SMART CITY OFFICER? THE LABEL??

getting set as a keystone for NYU's new STEM Curriculam (thanks to a unprecedented grant from Chandrika and Rajan Tondon) CUSP hosts a 15 global Universities Consortium for 'Urban Informatics' including IIT Bombay .. the PhD scholars and professors here are very smart yet they are crunching Big Data and Algorithms for Apps -

- know doubt our youngsters are 'Smart' however their experience in the 'Cities' is minimal and the seasoned city authorities are mostly senior who hardly can use their ever upgrading 'Smart Phone' let alone fathom the seductive promise of Big Data Open Apps that promises Smart Cities and transform urban existence..

HIS ZEITGEIST OF SPEED & COMPUTER ANIMATED SWAGGER SPELLS IRREVERSIBLE DOOM - WHY NOT CALL SMART CITIES "Land/Funds Acquisition Vehicle ;-)

Simplified Simplified Simplified and Seismically Braced for recurring Ecuadorian Earthquakes - In vain we hoped to build our SDInet ..SPARC Mahila Milan full scale self help Housing & Toilet Model at the Quito Habitat Village yet UN Habitat rejected the proposal without giving any reason for the Quito Habitat Village:(

We have some solutions, not all, there are feeble chances new miracle solutions but simplification of existing conditions - policy makers and leaders are all in the city so they seldom see anything beyond the urbanization- solutions/attention for sustaining countryside is critical for sustaining the doomed cities and the planet.. Clearing Smart Cities Confusion and effective Corporate Social Responsibility

UN World Habitat Awards Citations and demonstrated built projects in Asia, Africa besides at apex universities Exhibition Convention settings including at the UN headquarters (graced by Kofffi Annan, Anna Tibaijuka, praised by Dr Jim Kim .. our 'Self Help Earthquake Safe Housing' ignored/rejected by UN Habitat!? when there were seldom any solutions - these strong processes offer proven sustainable solutions, and UNCHS officials, Habitat 3 Secretariat, leadership should consider if they are sincerely suppressing such solutions for questioning the "New Urban Agenda" !!?? Click Here to see a recent award/article outlining (parts) processes (don't miss photo-slides there how the poorest coming together & improving environment) https://www.archdaily.com/784317/SPARC-wins-2016-curry-stone-design-prize(Makrand Bhoot is Resident Architect for SPARC/SDI for more than 25 years & recipient of World Habitat Awards for diverse housing & environmental enhancement projects)

Nobel Nominated SDInet.org & -P-A-T-H- at Quito effectively demonstrated 'Solutions' at Habitat 3 (although out of the UN precinct) building a shelter, toilet, kitchen and shared space right across for the foothpath dwellers (who were bulldozed for the beautification of the city.. with Quito Municipal notification they were to duly to disappear for two weeks ..

Interestingly 2015 UN H3 had solicited a 'Call for Solutions' unfortunately it vanished midway through the conference prep-cons :( We at -P-A-T-H- gathered all the discarded materials from the 'Habitat Village' bamboo, ropes, plastic sheets, cardboard, wood, tarpaulin, paint, adhesive tapes, posters, banners and with the displaced - built better than before - and it'd continue with the community..

..Smart Cities need to focus on information technology e-governance of the agencies NOT governance of the cities ... eg IT Infra, Hardware/Softwares, Apps, Data Analysis for Land Records/ Building/ Materials/ Housing/ Sanitation .. Smart Cities should not Take on the Agencies works itself - Proposing New Housing , Sanitation, Transportation seductive computer animated copy cat proposals for instant and impossible cities

Above image is from Manabi and Coastal Ecuador rural region where the epicenter of the April 2016 Earthquake was centered. Image above that is from Capital Quito - these images so common to urban rural landscape and international development scenario - however very very few organizations or institutions ventured to this devastated region:(

Big Data Urban Informatics Needs Framework for Small Input from Informal Economies for any Smart Solutions to Sustain. (Re: SDI "Know Your City"

Lets revisit the term "Data Poverty" again ..consider Big Data on Domestic Violence in rich or poor in the city- there is no data or too poor data - how would one know if an affluent household has child or elderly abuse? or the sweeping generalization that slum dwellers - poor drink cheap liquor and beat up wives- it's difficult to have proper data on such an important 'urban' reality .. so the term Data Poverty - and how would we plan budget schedule program for such invisible yet important sector ?

THATS WHY GOVERNMENT (BIG DATA & SMART) CITIES ADMIN NEED TO FOCUS ON RURBANIZATION & INFORMAL ECONOMIES..

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/Gandhis-global-villages-Jane-Jacobs-neighborhoods-viz-makrand-bhoot?trk=mp-author-card (Re: SDI "Know Your City" Big Data Urban Informatics Needs Framework for Small Input from Informal Economies for any Smart Solutions to Sustain..

you may see in this picture is a bamboo-frame > it's an ARC ("Area Resource Center" as we at SDI/SPARC Network terms it) for some of those displaced by the Habitat 3 conference at Quito Ecuador- made with ZERO Capitol, Zero External funds.. it became shelter, rain/sun refuge, with free drinking water and importantly

working toilets for ALL, it's part of a restaurant that serves authentic local food and now fruits from street vendors) it displays local crafts for sale and features local musicians - this way such 'ARC' helps sustain a small local interdependent informal economy..

Habitat 3 is over at Quito Ecuador yet this ARC shall continue .. it also served as a workshop to demonstrate easy earthquake engineering for everyone..

No Assessments or Estimates for Carbon Footprint of UN Conferences/Summits!?

In this incremental blog my effort is to bring effective solutions and missing voices .. I recommend The United Nations Habitat World Urban Forum 2018 be almost entirely online minimizing travel saving valuable time, transit anxiety and (burning jet/auto fuel) Carbon Foot Print "Deep DeCorbonization" at Climate Change Summit COP 2015 Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference } also defunct {https://deepdecarbonization.org/research-methods/ddpp-collective-toolkit/ :(

www Rurban Forums (as Net Zero) Complement > to UN Habitat and world Economic Forum > https://unhabitat.org/wuf/ World Urban Forum 11 to be held in 2022 (will start May 2017 with a call for expression) ..World Urban Forum (WUF9) taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February 2018 World Urban Forum (WUF10) will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2020... Habitat IV 2036

WERE YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION, ANYONE YOU KNOW CONCERNED WITH 1993 EARTHQUAKE AT LATUR- MAHARASHTRA INDIA) and/or 2001 EARTHQUAKE AT BHUJ -GUJARAT INDIA ?? THIS IS TO INFORM A 25 YEAR REUNION FOR RESILIENCE TO REDEFINE CSR > SEPTEMBER 30 2018- SEPTEMBER 30 2019

LETS CONNECT FOR THE 25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WHEN ALL THE WORLD'S ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & INDIVIDUALS, ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, EXPERTS, PROFESSORS, STUDENTS, OFFICIALS AND VOLUNTEERS REUNITE FOR RESILIENCE

.. Mostly Online For Widespread Participation with Minimal Footprint FOLLOWED BY SERIES OF FIELD WORKSHOPS & PROGRAMS AT THE GRASSROOTS

NASA-IIA ARCHITECTURE TROPHIES WITH THE CONTEXT/THEME

MBA/CSR BIZ/MANAGEMENT COMPETITIONS FOR RESILIENCE

TEDx Talks, ONLINE Forums, APPathons, ZERO CARBON MEETUPS

+ YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, IDEAS, IMAGINATION ..

Email: [email protected]

'Nexus' Approach is off interest where several sustainability sectors need to come together for diverse solutions : Energy, Transportation, Environment, Gender Equality, Poverty ... and so on, my articles try address/LinkIn these issues engaging NUA, National Missions, SDGs, Smart Cities and such perspectives to Rurban Resilience

Following Blog puts 'Sanctuary Cities' in perspective of Habitat III New Urban Agenda and "Right To The City" UN 2030 failed to note of the implications of the legal and financial sanctions city-federal maneuvering - I'd hope to hear from you on #SanctuaryCities

Smart Cities in vogue now with simulations so seductive -easily stifles due diligence

On Transport Oriented Development

PEACE is what the United Nations stands for. For Peace we need Sustainability i.e. AIR, WATER, FOOD, SHELTER & EQUALITY FOR ALL. We know what it takes, it's our time.

Open for suggestions, partnerships, collaboration, field work, projects, or discussion, dialogues.. forgive (better -please point out grammar and any inconsistencies for these blogs - updated time to time.. FRANK FEEDBACK & CANDID COMMENTS .. SHARES WELCOME lets connect for constructive action - Makand Bhoot Feel free to write/call/visit me anytime, looking forward to hear from you Best email me: [email protected]