Description
By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion people will be living in the world’s towns and cities, almost 50% of them in the 56 Commonwealth countries. To a significant extent, the future of the planet hangs on how cities and human settlements are managed. It is in our cities that the emissions creating climate catastrophe are stoked and where change can – and must – make a difference at scale. Food security, water, basic services, migration, shelter, jobs, environment: sustainable urbanisation is about changing direction to strive for a fairer and less environmentally damaging future.
This well-illustrated book by authors from around the Commonwealth tells how the Commonwealth Association of Planners across five decades has campaigned to make a difference. It also looks ahead, scoping the urgent, practical action that is now required.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Messages and Introduction
Message from the Right Honourable Patricia Scotland, KC, Commonwealth Secretary-General.
Message from Anne Gallagher, Director-General, Commonwealth Foundation.
Message from Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN-Habitat.
Messages from sponsors of the book.
1. Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation and the Work of CAP
Clive Harridge
Part 2: The First 50 Years
Introduction to Part 2
Ian Tant
2. Pointing a Path to Sustainable Urbanisation
Cliff Hague
3. 1970-1988 Laying the Foundations for a Commonwealth-wide Profession
Clive Harridge
4. 1988-2000 New Technologies and an Existential Crisis
Bill Robertson
5. 2000-2006 Reinventing Planning for Sustainable Urbanisation
Cliff Hague
6. 2006-2014 Towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda
Christine Platt
7. 2014-2020 Building Global Partnerships for Sustainable Urbanisation
Dyan Currie
8. 2020-2022 The Road to the Kigali Declaration on Sustainable Urbanisation and Beyond
Eleanor Mohammed and Kelley Moore
9. Gender and Sustainable Urbanisation – the work of the CAP Women in Planning Network
Jua Cilliers and Kristin Agnello
Part 3: The Next 50 Years
Introduction to Part 3
Ian Tant
10. Planning for Sustainable Urbanisation: Issues and challenges
Cliff Hague and Christine Platt
11. Planners will not be the Man in Horned Rimmed Glasses: The Future is Civil Not Civic
Vijay Krishnarayan
12. Young People Driving Sustainable Urbanisation
Olafiyin Taiwo
13. Education for Planning a Sustainable Future
Barbara Norman
14. Endpiece: Perspectives on the Past and Future of Planning in the Commonwealth
Cliff Hague, Clive Harridge, Bryce Julyan, Ruiz NIK and Ian Tant
Appendices
Appendix 1 CAP Chronology
Appendix 2 Biographical details of Contributors to the book
Appendix 3 Details of Sponsors
Appendix 4 Glossary
