World Metropolitan Day 2023
World Metropolitan Day, a global campaign led by Metropolis and UN-Habitat, celebrated its fifth anniversary on 7 October 2023. The day commemorates the adoption of the Montreal Declaration on Metropolitan Areas, which was adopted in October 2015, and started in 2018 through WMD. Since its first edition, World Metropolitan Day has been an occasion to spark global debates on how to promote a better urban future in our metropolises.
This year, World Metropolitan Day was hosted in Istanbul, Türkiye, to explore how nature can transform metropolises. Mayors and metropolitan leaders from around the world gathered to share their experiences and visions on how to enhance the resilience of their metropolitan areas through nature-based solutions.
The event, which was organised by the Marmara Municipalities Union, Metropolis, and UN-Habitat, was part of a global celebration that included events in Barcelona (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico), Guangzhou (China), and many other metropolises. It also featured a multi-level discussion on the prospects of developing a legal framework for metropolitan governance in Ukraine and the institutionalisation of Argentinian metropolitan areas.
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- Date published 14 December 2023