| Year |
Themes |
WHD Venue |
Chief guest |
| 2010 |
Better City, Better Life |
Shanghai, China |
Mr. Qi Ji, Deputy Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Mr. Shen Jun, Deputy Mayor of Shanghai |
| 2009 |
Planning Our Urban Future |
Washington, DC |
United States Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan |
| 2008 |
Harmonious Cities |
Luanda, Angola |
José Eduardo dos Santos - President of Angola |
|
| 2007 |
A safe city is a just city |
The Hague,the Netherlands |
Mr. Wim Deetman, Mayor of The Hague and chairman of UCLG |
| Monterrey, Mexico |
Beatriz Zavala Peniche, Secretary of Social Development, (SEDESOL) on Rescue of Public Spaces Programme |
| 2006 |
Cities, magnets of hope |
Naples |
Vittorio Craxi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of Multi-lateral affairs |
| Kazan |
Kamil Iskhakov - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in Far East Federal Region, President of the United Cites and Local Government Euro-Asia Regional Section |
| 2005 |
The Millennium Development Goals and the City |
Jakarta |
President Susilo Bambang Yudoyono |
| 2004 |
Cities - Engines of Rural Development |
Nairobi |
President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya |
| 2003 |
Water and Sanitation for Cities |
Rio De Janeiro |
Mayor of Rio De Janeiro |
| 2002 |
City-to-City Cooperation |
Brussels |
H.R.H. Prince Philippe |
| 2001 |
Cities without Slums |
Fukuoka |
Governor of Fukuoka Prefecture |
| 2000 |
Women in Urban Governance |
Jamaica |
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Land and Environment |
| 1999 |
Cities for All |
Dalian |
Minister of Construction,China |
| 1998 |
Safer Cities |
Dubai |
Director General Dubai Municipality UAE |
| 1997 |
Future Cities |
Bonn |
Federal Minister for Regional Planning,Building and Urban Development, Germany |
| 1996 |
Urbanization, Citizenship and Human Solidarity |
Budapest |
Minister of the Interior, Hungary |
| 1995 |
Our Neighbourhood |
Curitiba |
Mayor of Curitiba |
| 1994 |
Home and the Family |
Dakar |
President of Senegal |
| 1993 |
Women and Shelter Development |
UN, New York |
SG, UN |
| 1992 |
Shelter and Sustainable Development |
UN, New York |
SG, UN |
| 1991 |
Shelter and the Living Environment |
Hiroshima |
Mayor of Hiroshima |
| 1990 |
Shelter and Urbanization |
London |
Hon. Sir Geoffrey |
| 1989 |
Shelter, Health and the Family |
Jakarta |
President of Indonesia |
| 1988 |
Shelter and Community |
London |
Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1987 |
Shelter for the Homeless |
New York |
SG, UN |
| 1986 |
Shelter is my Right |
Nairobi |
USG, UNCHS (Habitat) |
