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New Member: Mayor Roshaan Wolusmal, Kandahar, Afghanistan
Kandahar, April 2017 - Kandahar's Mayor Roshaan Wolusmal: "For the first time in human history, most of us live in cities. Researchers' predictions indicate that urbanization speed will further increase in almost all parts of the world. As [...]
New Member: Mayor Joan Ribó Canut, Valencia, Spain
Valencia, March 2017 - Valencia’s Mayor Joan Ribó Canut recently joined the Global Parliament of Mayors. Joan Ribó Canut has been the mayor of València since June, 2015. Mayor Ribó Canut is enthusiastic to join the GPM and aims at [...]
New Member: Mayor Garcetti, Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles, February 2017 - Mayor Eric Garcetti: “We are living at a time when the world has never been more connected, and when the leading challenges on the planet — economic development, safety and security, [...]
Empowering Cities Under The New US Administration
New York, February 2 - The NYUSPS Schack Institute of Real Estate Urban Lab’s formal kick-off event, “Empowering Cities Under the New Administration,” was held on February 2, 2017 and featured Benjamin Barber, founder and [...]
“Compacts like the Global Parliament of Mayors are now more important than ever”
Washington DC, December 28 - It was only three years ago that journalist Benjamin Barber argued in his book If Mayors Ruled the World that cities were better poised to solve global problems than national [...]
Mayor Eric Garcetti (Los Angeles)/Benjamin Barber: “Can Cities Counter Trump”
CNN/Fareed Zakaria, December 23, 2016 Link
Benjamin R. Barber: “A Governance Alternative to Faltering Nation-States”
Citylab, December 5, 2016 Let’s count down the list: There’s Brexit, of course: Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Venezuela, and the Philippines all look increasingly dysfunctional. Reactionary populism and xenophobia have risen to power in Hungary, Poland, [...]
The West’s major cities are the best defense against the tide of right-wing nationalism
Washington Post, November 22, 2016 Towards the end of October, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, addressed an event hosted by the London Jewish Forum that commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of [...]
Mayor Orlando (Palermo): “Een gedreven burgemeester die alle vluchtelingen met open armen ontvangt”
VPRO Tegenlicht, November 15, 2016 – Burgemeester Leoluca Orlando van Palermo, beroemd en geliefd als bestrijder van de maffia, is een man met een missie. Hij wil dat mobiliteit als mensenrecht wordt erkend. Link
Cities Will Be the Best Answer to a Trump White House
New York Magazine – November 15, 2016 As the United States seeks to understand what the hell happened on Election Day, one of the most helpful frames for understanding is the urban-rural divide. Link