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This November, Egypt has hosted the WUF is also one of the most inclusive

12th Session of the World Urban Forum international gatherings that treat
(WUF12) and according to this year’s several urban matters, which are deeply
slogan: “It all starts at home”, change intertwined with several pressing issues

and certainly development should start related to the UN Sustainable
locally first, then be expanded globally. Development Goals (SDGs). For
Urban development issues are related example, the sessions organized during
to the simplest aspects that we usually the 5-days conference, mainly aimed to
take for granted, but deeply impact the discuss the matters of inequality,

shared urban existence of over 4.4 sustainable architecture and
billion people: such as the air we construction, gender-inclusivity in the
breathe, the availability and cost of urban sector, increasing the

housing, the safety of our water supply, environmental consciousness,
or the access to safe and inclusive acknowledging the impacts of conflicts
public spaces. on urbanization, etc.….

Established by the UN in 2001, and in

collaboration with UN-Habitat, the
World Urban Forum comes back to
Africa after over 20 years. This forum is

here to examine one of the most critical
issues around the world: rapid
urbanization and its impacts on the
environment. But most importantly it is
a platform where experiences and 13

expertise are shared from all around the
world