Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 87-98Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0956247815621473
Keywords
new urban agenda; Sustainable Development Goals; urban policy; Urban SDG; urban theory; urban transformation
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- Leverhulme Trust [RF-2014-081]
- ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research [ES/L008610/1]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/L008610/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/L008610/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The success of the campaign for a dedicated urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) reflected a consensus on the importance of cities in sustainable development. The relevance accorded to cities in the SDGs is twofold, reflected both in the specific place-based content of the Urban Goal and the more general concern with the multiple scales at which the SDGs will be monitored will be institutionalized. Divergent views of the city and urban processes, suppressed within the Urban Goal, are, however, likely to become more explicit as attention shifts to implementation. Acknowledging the different theoretical traditions used to legitimize the new urban agenda is an overdue task. As this agenda develops post-2015, the adequacy of these forms of urban theory will become more contested around, among other concerns, the possibilities and limits of place-based policy, advocacy and activism; and ways of monitoring and evaluating processes of urban transformation along multiple axes of development.
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