亲历历史——对促使联合国人居署成立的会议和决议的个人看法

Living history——a personal look at the conferences and resolutions that led to the creation of UN-HABITAT

所有一切都起因于第二次世界大战给欧洲和亚洲的城镇普遍造成的破坏。联合国领导的第一次卓有成效的住房项目就是向那些拥挤蜷缩在城市废墟中、试图熬过最寒冷的冬天的人们发放毛毯。

H. Peter Oberlander, Professor Emeritus, Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Colombia, is the Senior Advisor to Canada＇s Commissioner General for the third session of the World Urban Forum in Vancouver. He played a pivotal role in helping organize the first Habitat conference in Vancouver in 1976. Other leaders of urban movement with him in Vancouver 30 years ago included Barbara Ward, Margaret Mead, Mother Teresa, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada＇s then prime minister and his wife, Margaret, who led a “walk for water” of more than 10,000 British Columbians in support of clean drinking water for the world＇s urban poor. In this article, he recalls some historic moments in the history of UN-HABITAT.