Pattern Languages for New Urban Agenda

Summary

The Promise of Pattern Languages We celebrate the adoption by acclamation of the New Urban Agenda by all 193 member states of the United Nations, representing a landmark achievement in urban history. However, six years later, implementation remains an overwhelming and unmet challenge. We have not yet delivered on the New Urban Agenda’s call “to deliver on capacity development programmes… by means of peer-to-peer learning, subject matter-related partnerships and collaborative actions” (New Urban Agenda, para. 149). We are still struggling with “creation, promotion and enhancement of open, user-friendly and participatory data platforms using technological and social tools available to transfer and share knowledge among national, subnational and local governments and relevant stakeholders, including non-State actors and people” (New Urban Agenda, para. 161) in order to achieve an “urban paradigm shift” (New Urban Agenda, para. 7).