The WHO Healthy Cities will be 15 years old in the year 2000. It has proved an exceptionally sustainable WHO initiative and is still experiencing growth around the globe. This is all the more noteworthy because the world has changed significantly since the time when the Healthy Cities project was first launched in Europe in 1986. At present the interest and discourse has shifted from the "local" to the "global". Does this mean that the global now dominates the local? Or can the local respond adequately to global pressures? What can Healthy Cities contribute to this debate?
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