The vision for the future: strategic planning and imagining a sustainable city The city that becomes community
MODERATOR ShipraNarang Suri - Director of Urban Practices Sector, UN-Habitat Venice City Solutions 2030 has, since 2018,represented a unique creative space for the debate on the localization of sustainable development goals. In this edition, we will try to imagine and create the cities of the future, a topic of fundamental importance today. The pandemic generated by the coronavirus is first and foremost an urban crisis, because more than 90% of cases have been recorded in urban areas, and the economic recession will be particularly heavy in cities. How we recover and how we rebuild our societies will depend on the response that cities and local and regional governments around the world are able to make. And where better to start this process than from Venice? Venice is a place of resilience and creativity, resting on an important artistic and cultural heritage but always looking to the future. The SDGs offer us an integrated and comprehensive framework to reimagine our cities and the way we live them. This initiative is an opportunity to envision a better future through the SDGs and discuss how we can translate this vision into policy strategies, funding, and concrete initiatives to bring our aspirations to life.
The La Paz 2040 Development Plan: La Paz quequeremos Álvaro Blondel Executive Secretary of the Municipality of La Paz, Bolivia OVERVIEW • In 2014, La Paz adopted the La Paz 2040 integrated development plan, which was • The Plan is linked to the sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda. • It was formulated through broad participation of citizenship and different stakeholders in the area La Paz is one of the first municipalities in South America to have articulated its territorial planning through the lens of the SDGs of Agenda 2030, demonstrating that local governments can become promoters of public policies that can have a real impact on the quality of life of citizens. In fact, 63% of the objectives of the agenda are related to the tasks and responsibilities of local authorities. The creation of the development plan “La Paz 2040: La Paz quequeremos” goes in this direction. This is the third municipal development plan and the first multi-year Municipal Plan of the City of La Paz, it is strongly linked to the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and aims to guide the structural and strategic transformation of the territory by overcoming the main challenges (climate change, water scarcity and food security). The process of formulating the La Paz 2040 Plan involved more than 10,000 people, including citizens, institutions, public and private entities, with the aim of building a shared and long-term development project. The city government will continue to work to implement the SDGs, focusing in particular on three priorities: healthy living, sustainable mobility and decent work, and to counter the spread of Covid through a rethinking and adaptation of the city’s spatial planning.
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