Citiscope | Spreading urban innovation

Lessons and challenges as Indian cities step up planning for heat waves

Patralekha Chatterjee

Informal Settlements

How to solve the Global South’s urban housing crisis

Renewable Energy

The keys to meeting Africa’s growing urban energy needs

Where is the local voice in the SDGs review process?

City Leadership

4 ingredients for the perfect tech hub

New bus rapid transit system earns Dar es Salaam 2018 Sustainable Transit Award

After Trump’s climate withdrawal, how to add up the flurry of city responses?

Resilience

Lessons from five cities on urban food policy

Renewable Energy

Cities can go completely renewable — and here’s how

Urban Planning & Design

Why the world needs ‘blue urbanism’ — now

Equitable Development

In England, closing streets to cars so kids can play

5 groups awarded for self-built, self-managed housing projects

How Buenos Aires is thinking about sustainable transport

A new way to verify the real impacts of climate action in cities

The Gold Standard unveils a new certification for sustainable urban development.

Carey L. Biron July 11, 2017

Governance

As nations assess progress on SDGs, questions linger about the cities goal

Lessons from Milan’s emerging metropolitan debate

Questions raised over composition, timeline of UN-Habitat assessment

Finance

Economic Development

How a declining German city is reviving itself from the bottom up

Cities looking to ‘green banks’ to help fund sustainable infrastructure

How the private sector can help create pipelines of sustainable urban development projects

4 ingredients for the perfect tech hub

How several U.S. cities built their urban innovation ecosystems

Peter Engelke, Robert A. Manning July 7, 2017

Data-Driven Cities

A new way to verify the real impacts of climate action in cities

Measuring Progress

North American cities are innovating on community-level development indicators

Urban science must inform policymaking — here’s how

Global Partners