(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Culture: Urban Future, the first global report by UNESCO on culture for sustainable urban development, was launched on 18 October in Quito (Ecuador) in the framework of the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III). Francesco Bandarin, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Culture, and Oumar Cissé, Executive Secretary, Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine (Senegal) co-chaired the session 'Dialogue on Socio-Cultural Urban Frameworks' during which the Report was launched. Roland Ries, Mayor of Strasbourg (France), Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology at...
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