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Buenos Aires, Argentina will host this preparatory conference for the Habitat III meeting to be held in 2016 on September 1st, 2014. The Future Places Conference is the second in a series of three conferences on management of and access to public space. This conference series is organised by UN Habitat , the Project for Public Spaces and Ax:son Johnson Foundation. More specifically, the Future Places Conference in Buenos Aires will focus on the effect of street design on city dwellers. Local governments, especially mayors of cities, play a crucial role in these conferences as they do in the Habitat III discussion in general.
For more information, and to keep up to date on the specifics of this conference please refer to the UN Habitat website and the Future of Places website.