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Economic growth in Europe: Leaving no region behind
Economic growth in most countries is driven by a few urban centers that have a high concentration of economic activity. In the EU, 28 capital cities and 228 secondary cities amass 23% of the total...
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How can Kenya achieve a sustainable urban future?
Cities in Africa are growing at unprecedented speeds. In Kenya, about 12 million of the country’s over 40 million people live in urban areas today. However, a child born in 2017 will see Kenya’s urban...
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How to effectively manage metropolitan areas?
Today, a quarter of the world’s population lives in urban “agglomerations”—supersized metropolitan areas that cut across jurisdictional boundaries and bring together one or more cities along with...
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In China, conserving the past helps the poor build a brighter future
How cultural heritage and sustainable tourism help reduce poverty China has seen a booming tourism industry during the last few decades, thanks to a fast-developing economy and growing disposable...
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Urban jungles in jeopardy
Why the world’s cities are at risk – and what we can do to make them more resilient We may not know exactly what the world will look like in two decades, but we know this: it is going to be a world of...
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Budget-strapped cities are creating financing—out of thin air
The world is urbanizing fast—200,000 people are moving to cities every day in search of homes, jobs, as well as education and healthcare services for their families. Supporting this influx with proper...
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Disaster risk and school infrastructure: What we do and do not know
This page in: Français Credit: Tracy Ben/ Shutterstock“At 14:28:04 on May 12, 2008, an 8.0 earthquake struck suddenly, shaking the earth, with mountains and rivers shifted, devastated, and parted...
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From Istanbul to Manila—different fault lines, similar challenges
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” This was the response given by Sir Edmond Hillary when asked how he and his companion Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mt Everest, when so...
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Five lessons on affordable housing provision from Indonesia
When first-time homeowner Dewi moved into her new house in the Yogyakarta area a year ago, thanks to a government subsidy program, she thought: everything isperfect. Well, not quite. Located an hour...
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Pipeline to Work: Including persons with disabilities in skills development...
Photo: Dane Macri/The Advocacy Project via Flickr CC. The relationship between poverty and disability goes both ways: disability increases the risk of poverty, and the conditions of poverty increase...
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A road by any other name: street naming and property addressing system in...
Street names in Accra, Ghana. Photo credit: Ben Welle/ Flickr CC When I used to work in Rwanda, I lived on a small street in Kigali. Every time I invited friends over, I would tell them to “walk past...
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One Planet Summit: Three climate actions for a resilient urban future
Two years ago, more than 180 countries gathered in Paris to sign a landmark climate agreement to keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow, on December 12, 2017, exactly two...
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How do city leaders get things done? Learning from mayors in Japan
Also available in: Español | 日本語 Picture of the Competitive Cities Technical Deep Dive participants enjoying a walk through the Minato Mirai 21 area (with the Cosmo Clock in the background), which...
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都市のリーダーにできること：日本の事例から学ぶ
Also available in: Español | 日本語 コスモクロック21を背景にみなとみらい21地区を歩く「競争力のある都市づくり」実務者研修会合の参加者たち。みなとみらい２１地区は、横浜市の中でも付加価値の高い活動が集中し、生活の質の高さに重点をおいた地区となっている。...
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Building bridges: cities helping cities achieve more – a Romanian-Japanese...
Photo: The central square of the old town. Brasov. Transylvania. By Ann Stryzhekin/ Shutterstock When U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Yokohama in 1854, it was a backwater village in Japan with...
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