Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon’s urban growth boundaries are essential for housing and economic development
EurekAlert!: Scaling laws in urban ecosystems: A new perspective on city growth
World Bank: Technical Deep Dive on Urban Planning and Land for Growth — Promoting Sustainable Growth through Effective Land Use and Planning
Technical Deep Dive on Urban Planning and Land for Growth — Promoting Sustainable Growth through Effective Land Use and Planning
techtimes: The Future of Sustainable Cities: How Effective Water Management Fuels Urban Growth
How cities manage their water resources deeply intertwines with urban growth and sustainability. Securing water availability and maintaining urban areas' quality of life and economic vitality requires ...
The Future of Sustainable Cities: How Effective Water Management Fuels Urban Growth
The Register-Guard: Open house event lays foundation for Urban Growth Strategies with community input
Open house event lays foundation for Urban Growth Strategies with community input
Urban digital twins are transforming how smart cities plan, operate and adapt to future challenges. Urban digital twins use real-time data, advanced analytics, and AI to help city planners visualize ...
World Bank: Africa’s Urban Awakening: Catalyzing Economic Growth and Jobs - TDLC Thematic Event at TICAD9
What is the key to harnessing Africa's urbanization as a catalyst for job creation and economic growth? On , during the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development ...
Africa’s Urban Awakening: Catalyzing Economic Growth and Jobs - TDLC Thematic Event at TICAD9
The World Bank Group supports cities and mobilizes subnational finance to create jobs by building urban infrastructure and strengthening municipal services.
Discover how the Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program created 1.15 million jobs with World Bank support.
How an Urban Program in Ethiopia Delivered More than a Million Jobs
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Simply adding land to cities or removing planning for housing and urban industrial needs is counterproductive to the problems we face.
Downtown Venice, Fla. Parts of the city evolved very differently from what its planner envisioned. A couple of weeks ago I knocked a big item off my nerdy urban planner bucket list when I finally paid ...
As urbanization accelerates, ecosystems are often pushed to the brink, leading to the degradation of ecological services and heightened environmental stress. Traditional urban planning has typically ...
Urbanization is reshaping economies and societies worldwide. More than half of the global population now lives in cities, a share expected to reach 68 percent by 2050. Cities generate about 70 percent ...
The Clark County Planning Commission has recommended approving changes to the county’s 20-year growth plan that would, among many other things, annex agricultural lands along state Highway 502 into ...
The Farmer’s Market Pavilion echoed with conversations Wednesday evening as community members connected with city planners to discuss what they want Eugene’s development to look like for the next 20 ...
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …