The International Conference on “Culture for Sustainable Cities” aims at providing a high‐level forum to address key issues related to culture and sustainable urban development. As a key cornerstone of the elaboration process of the UNESCO Global Report on Culture and Sustainable Urban Development, it will pursue the following objectives:
‐ sharing experiences and propose strategic recommendations to strengthen culture‐based sustainable urban development initiatives at the international, national, regional and local levels;
‐ present and discuss the draft UNESCO Global Report on Culture and Sustainable Urban Development;
‐ contribute to the reflection on a “New Urban Agenda” in the context of the Post‐2015 Sustainable Development Agenda, thus providing strategic input to the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), scheduled to take place in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador.