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June 19 - 23, 2006
Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre
Vancouver, Canada
The Third Session of the World Urban Forum
(WUF3) in Vancouver was hosted by the Government of
Canada in partnership with UN-HABITAT and organized by
the GLOBE Foundation. For five days in June, 10,000 participants
from more than 100 nations discussed, debated and shared
experiences about how to make our cities better places to live.
The World Urban Forum, held every two years, was established by
the United
Nations to examine one of the most pressing issues
facing the world today: rapid urbanization in a world where half of
humanity lives in cities and where in the next 50 years that
proportion is expected to reach two-thirds of the global
population. The Third Session of the World Urban Forum marked the
30th anniversary of the first United Nations conference on human
settlements held in Vancouver in 1976, which led to the creation of
UN-HABITAT.
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