Articles

Political Criteria for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Selection and the Role of the Urban Dimension
Manuel Rivera, Sustainability 2013, 5(12), pp. 5034-5051. IASS Project, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany.

City dwellers seek to transform debate on urban poverty
Alia Dharssi, Dec 2013
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Reports

On July 26, 2014 the SDSN revised its draft indicator report to align the monitoring framework to the draft SDGs recently proposed by the Open Working Group (OWG) on the Sustainable Development Goals. The revised report also incorporates conclusions from several recent events held on SDG indicators and the data revolution, including a June 23-24 technical workshop organized by the SDSN in New York. The report features potential indicators for OWG Goal 11 on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements.  Available here:

Sustainable Future Cities that We Want
JICA, Chair’s Summary: Special Side Event at the 7th Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, January 6, 2014

Integrated urban design and planning for inclusive public space and city-region connectivity and efficiency
Arun Jain, Communitas Coalition, Working Group 1, Final Issues Paper, January 4, 2014

Participatory Democracy, Poverty and Inequalities Reduction
Andrea Costafreda, Communitas Coalition, Working Group 2, Final Issues Paper, January 2, 2014

Growth, Prosperity and Jobs for All within Planetary Boundaries With a Focus on Youth and Women
Mark Roseland, Communitas Coalition, Working Group 3, Final Issues Paper, January 5, 2014

Universal Access to Affordable Housing, Social Services, and Public Utilities: Water and Sanitation, Transport, Energy, and Waste Management
Anjali Mahendra, Communitas Coalition, Working Group 4, Final Issues Paper, January 10, 2014

Linkages with Rural Development, including food security and ecosystem resources
Thomas Forster, Communitas Coalition, Working Group 5, Draft Issues Paper, December 2, 2013

Resilience through Risk Prevention and Management and Environmental Sustainability
James Goldstein, Communitas Coalition, Working Group 6, Final Issues Paper, December 31, 2013

Establishing a Sustainable Development Goal on Cities
Manuel Rivera & Adriana Lagos, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies & Jardin Botanico Jose Celestino Mutis, December 2013

Compilation for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the Post-2015 Development Agenda
UN Habitat, December 20, 2013

Sustainable Cities
Key to Sustainability and Development, Contribution to the 7th Session of the Open Working Group, Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for Post-2015 Development Agenda Towards Habitat III, December 13, 2013

Compilation of Executive Summaries of First Draft Issues Papers
Expert Workshop on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements, Communitas Coalition, December 5-6, 2013

Why the World Needs an Urban Sustainable Development Goal
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), September 18, 2013

Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements
Technical Support Team (TST) Issues Brief. UN DESA, UNDP, UN Habitat, UNEP, et al. September 2013

An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, June 2013

The Urban Opportunity: Enabling Transformative and Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Thematic Group on Sustainable Cities, Report to the High-Level Panel on Eminent Persons, May 20, 2013

Presentations
Why the World Needs an Urban SDG?
Presentation by Aromar Revi to the 7th Session of the Open Working Group, UN Headquarters
7 January 2014 

The Urban Opportunity to Enable Transformative and Sustainable Development
Presentation by Aromar Revi and Cynthia Rosenzweig to the SDSN Leadership Council
09 April 2013

Cities: Smart, Healthy, Productive
Presentation by Shagun Mehrotra to the SDSN Leadership Council
27 November 2012