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Towards the Future
The UN's World Urban Forum is held every two years and the last UN-HABITAT event was held from June 19-23, 2006 in Vancouver, the award-winning city on Canada's Pacific coast.
The Forum marked the 30th anniversary of HABITAT 1 - the first United Nations conference on human settlements, which was actually held in Vancouver in 1976. This historic conference helped bring urban issues to the top of the United Nations agenda and led to the creation of the Human Settlements Programme, or UN-HABITAT.