World Association of the Major Metropolises 347d ago

Balendra Shah, mayor of the capital of Nepal, talks with Metropolis secretary general Jordi Vaquer about the effects of climate change on the city and the meaning of "quality of life" in a south-asian metropolis, in the 2nd episode of our series of interviews with the world's major cities. A rapper, music composer, poet, structural engineer and politician, Shah became at 32 years old the first independent candidate to become mayor of Kathmandu, in 2022.