The UN’s third Habitat Preparatory meeting (PrepCom3) has come to an end, with many agendas on urban development, including the need to create mixed-use urban space to overcome mobility problems.

UN Habitat III secretary-general Joan Clos said during a press briefing on Wednesday that the three-day meeting, followed by 2,571 official delegates from 142 UN member countries, had produced the New Urban Agenda, which would be proposed to the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador, in October.

“One of the most crucial issues is that we consume too much land. Countries should make efforts to create better density and compactness of urban areas in order to control the sprawl of urbanization,” he said.

Many growing cities in the world, including Greater Jakarta, have turned rural land into new urban areas. The public works and public housing agency reported 60 p...