Human settlements
The second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), held in Istanbul in 1996, endorsed important changes in the approach to human settlement, acknowledging a need to guide urbanization rather than to prevent it. At that time, 171 Governments adopted the Habitat Agenda: a global call for action setting out approaches and strategy for the sustainable development of the world’s cities, towns and villages in the 21st century.
Read case study overview by LEAD Fellow Marc Lalond: Green Infrastructure Project