Investments in adaptation will also save over 130,000 lives from extreme heat impacts by 2050. With over 50 percent of the urban infrastructure required for 2050 still to be built, India has a critical opportunity to drive resilient urban infrastructure development. “The imperative for India to build resilient cities at scale is clear.
Discover how the Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program created 1.15 million jobs with World Bank support.
This report highlights the substantial investments required to build more resilient and low-carbon cities in low- and middle-income countries. These investments are crucial to strengthen essential infrastructure, unlock new jobs, and ensure more sustainable urban development. Resilient and low ...
Demographic trends are diverse among regions, within regions and within countries: while many cities will continue to grow, albeit at declining rates, many other cities are looking at declining or aging populations. In the near future, many more cities will face an increasing aging population, with important implications for the provision of urban infrastructure and service provision.
Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization The joint report by the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council, Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive and Sustainable Urbanization, includes six priority areas for a new model of urbanization: 1. Reforming land management and institutions Because most of the urban expansion in recent ...
WASHINGTON, – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $400 million in financing for a new project that will provide safely managed water, sanitation and basic hygiene services, and help improve the institutional and financial performance of local urban administration in Punjab province.
AzerNews: WUF13: Baku opens its doors to world's urban planners with ambitious plans
WUF13: Baku opens its doors to world's urban planners with ambitious plans
China has issued a new proposal urging cities to integrate youth development into urban planning, housing, healthcare, education and public services, in a broader push ...
China has unveiled an innovative strategy to integrate youth development into urban planning, housing, healthcare, education and public services. The primary goal of the release is to ...
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) and the Resilient Urban and Territorial Development Project, under the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), organised the workshop at the Nagar Bhaban ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard: Christopher Balter Introduces the Christopher Balter Second Chance Community Impact Scholarship to Advance Community Development, Urban Planning, and Public Service Careers ...
Christopher Balter Introduces the Christopher Balter Second Chance Community Impact Scholarship to Advance Community Development, Urban Planning, and Public Service Careers ...
WFLA on MSN: Planning commission finds Lithia development plan ‘inconsistent’ with Urban Service Area criteria
Planning commission finds Lithia development plan ‘inconsistent’ with Urban Service Area criteria
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WASHINGTON, – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $400 million in financing for a new project that will provide safely managed water, sanitation and basic hygiene services, and help improve the institutional and financial performance of local urban ...
The World Bank Group supports cities and mobilizes subnational finance to create jobs by building urban infrastructure and strengthening municipal services.
How an Urban Program in Ethiopia Delivered More than a Million Jobs
A new report on Urban Transport in Yangon and Mandalay provides an assessment of urban mobility in Myanmar’s two largest cities for policymakers.
Explore World Bank group data and analysis on global development topics like poverty reduction, education, health, economic growth, and more.
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes.
Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
The Djibouti Integrated Slum Upgrading Project, launched in 2018, aims to improve living conditions in deprived urban areas in Djibouti City and to strengthen the capacity of public institutions responsible for implementing the Zero Slum Program.
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The city of Roanoke is working to develop an Urban Renewal Apology that would help bring reparations to the victims and descendants of policies that destroyed the majority Black ...
Hosting the UN's World Urban Forum next month gives Azerbaijan a rare platform to showcase both an ambitious capital masterplan and the controversial smart-city project rising from the rubble of ...
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Talaat Moustafa Group has unveiled detailed plans for The Spine, a 5-kilometre, 2.4 million sqm mixed-use corridor in Madinaty featuring Egypt's first cognitive city infrastructure, a car-free public ...
The News International: China unveils ‘youth-development oriented’ cities plan to combat demographic decline
The Liwatoni Floating Foot Bridge in Mombasa, Kenya, was been constructed by the Kenya National Highway Authority through the China City Construction Company. The floating foot bridge will decongest ...
AOL: Charleston County asks residents to help shape housing, community development plan
Charleston County officials are asking residents to weigh in as the county develops a long‑term plan to guide housing and community development investments over the next several years. The county is ...
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS): Workshop on cluster development and capital investment planning held in Rajshahi
A new World Bank-financed investment will enhance mobility and accessibility in Tanzania’s capital, Dodoma, unlocking economic opportunities and creating over 10,000 new jobs by 2030, while boosting the city’s economic output by 2%.
New World Bank Financing Set to Revamp Dodoma’s Urban Mobility and ...
Nature-based solutions like urban farming, terraces, and green corridors can help cities with climate challenges including urban heat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions best meet their needs? In Kinshasa, indigenous knowledge, innovative tools, and proactive local government are helping to answer the question.
Untapped Cities: Urban Profile: Halcyonaire Explores the Interplay of the Urban and the Natural with Dark Country Rock