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Vancouver Working Group Discussion Paper
The Secure City
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Turning Ideas into Action
In preparation for the 2006 United Nations World Urban Forum (WUF), the Vancouver Working Group (VWG) was created as a partnership of public and private agencies and civil society. It was mandated to initiate a series of research inquiries resulting in the Vancouver Working Group Discussion Papers for the World Urban Forum. These papers were prepared by members of the VWG with relevant experience and well-developed resources. It is hoped that these papers will contribute to the development of a thematic framework for WUF 2006 by articulating the concept and content of urban sustainability.
WUF will focus on urbanization as an all-encompassing global phenomenon and attempt to recommend effective actions to achieve a sustainable process of global urban transformation by balancing social, economic, environmental and political goals: Turning Ideas into Action.
The Vancouver Working Group Discussion Papers for the World Urban Forum are open-ended segments of a conceptual whole. Each of them will strive towards sustainability thereby transforming urban life into a productive, inclusive and environmentally balanced range of activities. These segments taken together will characterize sustainable human settlements. Sustainable urbanization can only be achieved through a mosaic of sustainable components that will add up to more than the sum of their parts.
All papers received comments from independent peer reviewers and this contribution is gratefully acknowledged.
H. Peter Oberlander, O.C.
Professor Emeritus,
Community and Regional Planning,
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Editor