The Urban Thinkers Campus is an initiative of UN-Habitat in association with the Universal Forum of Cultures of Naples and Campania. It is organized in the city of Caserta, a UNESCO Cultural Heritage site in the region of Campania, 40 km north of Naples. 

The first version of The City We Need was prepared by the World Urban Campaign from September to December 2013, and launched in March 2014 in New York prior to the Seventh Session of the World Urban Forum.