Welcome to the ‘Equity and Prosperity of Cities’ dialogue
Hello and welcome to the City Changer dialogue on the theme of ‘Equity and the Prosperity of Cities’. We are very excited to be involved in what promises to be a rich and productive debate over the next few weeks. The outputs of this e-debate will form an important contribution to the activities of the 2012 World Urban Forum, to be held in Naples (Italy) in September (view the ‘informational website’ on the dialogue’s homepage to find out more).
Your moderators for this debate are James Duminy and Gordon Pirie of the African Centre for Cities, located at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. You can view my profile at any time to find out more information about the ACC or myself.
Thank you for participating - enjoy the debate and have fun!
James and Gordon
grethel castellanos, 17 May 2012Since we wrote the Report of the Prosperity of SANTODOMINGO for ONU-HABITAT we began to consider the possibility of becoming a Prosperous City considering all the findings and through a planning process in the context of our planning institutional system and I think/hope we can learn from others in this debate, because for me as a planner it is the only possibility we have.....