The Global Planners Network (commonly abbreviated to GPN) is a group of spatial planning institutes and other organizations, who have signed the Vancouver Declaration.
It directly preceded and fed into the third World Urban Forum (WUF3), organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in Vancouver and facilitated and funded by the Government of Canada.
[citation needed] The Global Planners Network held a second Congress directly preceding the fourth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF4) in Nanjing, China 2008, in nearby Zhenjiang.
[4] The Global Planners Network founder members attended WUF4, which was hosted by the UN-HABITAT, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, PRC.
At a WUF4 UN-Habitat Seminar ‘Global Planners Network Messages & Outreach’[5] the GPN presented its Communiqué[6] and latest Action Plan.