Serbia and the Danube area in the light of the new urban agenda
Abstract
A new global framework to guide urban development and housing policy in the next twenty years - the New Urban Agenda was adopted at the end of the Habitat III Conference held in Quito, Ecuador. This time, the Agenda was tailored and adopted to the requirements of the Sustainable Development Goals and particularly to the requirements of Goal 11 - Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, established in 2015. The paper outlines the basic facts indicating the complexity of Agenda-making and the entire Habitat III process. It also points to the first controversies that have arisen around and after the conference in Quito and examines the importance attached, and the one that the Agenda might have in the future in the Danube countries, especially in Serbia, taking into account demographic trends, diversity in the level of the existing quality of urban life and challenges to be met.
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