Where does NUA come from 2 - Habitat I and its origins (2)

Based on the concerns raised at the Habitat I, Conference considers that the establishment of a just and peaceful world economic order is important for promoting socio-economic development and improving human settlements conditions, especially in developing countries, through necessary reforms in the areas of international trade, monetary systems, industrialization, resource transfer, technology transfer and world resource consumption.

This is the first international strategic plan of the United Nations to address and control the problem of urban sprawl, combining political, spatial, social, cultural, economic and environmental aspects to form a comprehensive and unified program of urbanization. It calls on countries to develop national strategies and policies that address issues of land use and land rights, population growth, infrastructure, basic services, provision of adequate housing and employment, taking into account the human and social dimensions and the needs of vulnerable and marginalized populations. The Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements and the Vancouver Action Plan form the cornerstone of the UN-Habitat mandate to date.

Habitat I was the historic conference that brought the issue of settlement to the attention of the world. Based on the recommendations of the conference, the United Nations established an intergovernmental body - the United Nations Commission on Human Settlements (UN Commission) in 1977. It turned as a permanent body of the Commission's secretariat in 1978, which was called the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat). Dr. Arcot Ramachandran (1923- ), an Indian scientist, was appointed as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the first Executive Director of the UN Centre for Human Settlements.

The convening of Habitat I gave a great impetus to the construction of habitats in developing and developed countries in the 1970s and 1980s. However, because Habitat I was held at a time when China was still at the end of the Cultural Revolution, we were still very far from the world Habitat movement.

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Translated by Chen Yan