Una generación vital.. De Ohio a Rabat

Por Guillermo Tapia, Secretario General de FLACMA, Sección Latinoamericana de CGLU  Apenas si había sido incorporado como funcionario de la Municipalidad de Quito y fui llamado a integrar el grupo de trabajo que facilitaría la reunión en la que se daría luz a la primera expresión regional de IULA. El 17 de noviembre de 1981, en Quito, Ecuador,...

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UNISDR promotes session on access to Risk Information at Rabat

We are pleased to inform you that UNISDR will be holding a side-event on October 2nd from 11:00-13:00 addressing the topic: "Access to Risk Information for Citizens, Local Governments and Partners". The side event will address issues and challenges of disaster risk reduction as they pertain to local governments, including concrete examples from...

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Entretien avec Thierry Mallet

Entretien avec Thierry Mallet, Directeur de l’Innovation et de la Performance Industrielle du Groupe SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT. 1. En quoi le partenariat avec CGLU est-il important pour un groupe tel que SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT ? Nous sommes un acteur mondial dédié aux métiers de l’eau et de la gestion des déchets. Avec 97 millions de personnes alimentées en...

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United Cities, an exception moment in my life!

By Jean-Marie Tétart, former Secretary General of the United Towns Organization (1989-1997), Mayor of Houdan I first began working for the Fédération Mondiale des Cités Unies et Villes Jumelées (United Towns Organization) when Pierre Mauroy was President. At his request, I developed the concept of decentralized cooperation in a more concrete...

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Economic Development and the Growing Urban Opportunity

 By Michael Dixon, General Manager, Smarter Cities, IBM  Today we live in an urban world.  Economic activity is happening in cities, and cities matter like never before. This is because cities around the world are getting bigger, fast. By 2015, there will be 22 metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people. Around the world,...

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The Urban International

By Antònia Sabartés, Secretary General, Euroregión Pirineos Mediterrànea, Former Director of International Relations of the City of Barcelona  (2003-2009)  Upon learning of the centenary of the international municipal movement, I felt nauseous as I realised that of these 100 years, I had spent 23 completely immersed in this world. Without any...

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La cultura en las ciudades, ¿susto o muerte?

Fuente: El País Por Jordi Pascual, colaborador docente del Área de Gestión de la Ciudad y Urbanismo de la Universidad Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) y Coordinador de la Comisión de Cultura de CGLU Ya no sirve el modelo que tiene en cuenta el crecimiento económico, la equidad social y el equilibrio ambiental pero olvida la cultura Las ciudades asumen...

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From IULA to UCLG - My Odyssey

By Jeremy Smith, Former Secretary General of IULA My first experience of IULA was a World executive Committee (WEXCOM) in Santiago de Chile, hosted by IULA’s President and Mayor of Santiago, Jaime Ravinet. But IULA seemed to me to lack focus and strategy. The Secretary General was Drew Horgan, a lovely and committed man who had many strengths, but...

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The power of cities

By Margarita Obiols, Former Secretary of the International Relations Department of Generalitat de Calatunya Due to life’s circumstances, I have been privilege enough to participate over the last decade – the golden decade no doubt – in the international municipal movement that celebrates a century of life. The perspective of one hundred years is...

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Interview à M. Fathallah OUALALOU

Source: Global Local Forum M. Fathallah OUALALOU est maire de Rabat. Il est surtout un économiste internationalement reconnu. Après une thèse de doctorat en économie à l’Université de Paris, il enseigne sa discipline aux facultés de droit de Rabat et de Casablanca ainsi qu’à l'école nationale d'administration de Paris. En 1972, avec l'économiste...

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