{"id":24532,"date":"2016-10-19T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=24532"},"modified":"2016-10-19T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:20:16","slug":"city-mayors-warned-against-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/city-mayors-warned-against-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"City mayors warned against politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Mayors of the world\u2019s cities attending the UN&#8217;s Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador have been asked to avoid pushing for growth based on politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">According to the mayor of Canada&#8217;s second city, Montr\u00e9al Denis Coderre, national politics is detrimental to the growth of cities especially in the developing world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Coderre who is also the president of the &#8220;Metropolis&#8221; group, which represents all of the world&#8217;s big cities with populations of over one million says the world is fast becoming a global city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">He says that adoption of the New Urban Agenda will make a difference in achieving the 2030 global Sustainable Development Goals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayors of the world\u2019s cities attending the UN&#8217;s Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador have been asked to avoid pushing for growth based on politics. According to the mayor of Canada&#8217;s second city, Montr\u00e9al Denis Coderre, national politics is detrimental to the growth of cities especially in the developing world. Coderre who is also the president of the &#8220;Metropolis&#8221; group, which represents all of the world&#8217;s big cities with populations of over one million says the world is fast becoming a global city. He says that adoption of the New Urban Agenda will make a difference in achieving the 2030 global Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}