"Don't listen to what they say. Go see."
"Don't listen to what they say. Go see."
UM is a Centre of Excellence established since June 2016 to create better cities in Malaysia. It promotes sustainable and climate responsive urban development through knowledge sharing, partnership programs and multi-stakeholders engagement. UM is the local committee of the ninth session of the World Urban Forum and the seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Urban Forum.
The SDGs The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
The Centre Serves as a working space for local authorities and the community to work together on ideas & solutions for their cities. The SDGs Center will make changes to our planning and implementation of SDGs with three guiding principles.
Malaysia 100YC (Year Cities) program which envisions the ideal future for malaysian cities and seeks the right foundations and solutions to set forth.
Cities have significantly longer lifespans (Kuala Lumpur being one was originally founded in 1857 and is still evolving today) and thus must require greater thoughts on what positive environments we want to have as hundreds of thousands of people are potentially affected by a city’s growth.
Malaysia 100YC will spearhead the way forward for sustainable future cities of Malaysia and act as the role model for an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable city.
