Archinect - News2024-12-22T04:27:24-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/98205597/11-reasons-the-un-should-make-cities-the-focus-of-its-forthcoming-sustainable-development-goals
11 Reasons the UN Should Make Cities the Focus of Its Forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals Alexander Walter2014-04-17T13:44:00-04:00>2014-04-21T20:55:11-04:00
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Unfortunately, a number of important countries, the U.S. and Canada among them, remain worryingly undecided about joining this widespread call for a city-specific SDG from countries as diverse as Germany, Colombia, and Ghana.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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https://archinect.com/news/article/98089591/medell-n-miracle-or-marketing-ploy
Medellín Miracle or Marketing Ploy? Alexander Walter2014-04-15T13:59:00-04:00>2014-04-15T14:00:18-04:00
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