Article describing research undertaken at the Glasgow Urban Laboratory (1) "Towards a city-focussed, people-centred and integrated approach to the New Urban Agenda" on cities across the UNECE Region and published by UN-Habitat in 2017 following the HABITAT III Global Conference in Quito, Peru in 2016 and (2) "Scotland's Urban AGE: Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh in the century of the city". Article published in "The Scottish Planner" at the request of the editors in order to disseminate the findings of the research throughout the entire planning profession in Scotland and internationally.