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.
londonlovesbusiness.com: Why GIS matters in modern infrastructure and urban planning: Building smarter, future-ready cities
Why GIS matters in modern infrastructure and urban planning: Building smarter, future-ready cities
The Conversation: China is helping build Africa’s cities, but its approach sidelines local urban planners and residents
As African cities experience some of the fastest urban growth rates in the world, China has become a major bilateral financier for urban infrastructure. I study China’s economic engagements in Africa, ...
China is helping build Africa’s cities, but its approach sidelines local urban planners and residents
Mena FN: China Is Helping Build Africa's Cities, But Its Approach Sidelines Local Urban Planners And Residents
(MENAFN- The Conversation) As African cities experience some of the fastest urban growth rates in the world, China has become a major bilateral financier for urban infrastructure. From Nairobi's ...
China Is Helping Build Africa's Cities, But Its Approach Sidelines Local Urban Planners And Residents
Zawya: China is helping build Africa’s cities, but its approach sidelines local urban planners
As African cities experience some of the fastest urban growth rates in the world, China has become a major bilateral financier for urban infrastructure. From Nairobi’s elevated expressways to Lagos’s ...
China is helping build Africa’s cities, but its approach sidelines local urban planners
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 ...
AllAfrica.com: Africa: China Is Helping Build Africa's Cities, but Its Approach Sidelines Local Urban Planners and Residents
As African cities experience some of the fastest urban growth rates in the world, China has become a major bilateral financier for urban infrastructure. My recent analysis of 267 Chinese-financed ...
Africa: China Is Helping Build Africa's Cities, but Its Approach Sidelines Local Urban Planners and Residents
ArchDaily: Urban Renewal from Below: 10 Public Spaces that Reclaim Neglected City Infrastructure
Urban infrastructure intended for city connectivity disrupts urban patterns and often leaves behind a series of spaces without a properly defined use. Fortunately, the notion of space beneath ...
Urban Renewal from Below: 10 Public Spaces that Reclaim Neglected City Infrastructure
World Bank: Innovative Approaches to Urban Infrastructure Management: Insights from Japan and Global Applications
In the world of rapid urbanization, where 7 in 10 people are expected to live in cities by 2050, cities must have urban resilience and livability ensured with quality urban infrastructure. Urban ...
Innovative Approaches to Urban Infrastructure Management: Insights from Japan and Global Applications
The Conversation: New stormwater infrastructure is needed for Canadian cities to handle increased urban flooding
New stormwater infrastructure is needed for Canadian cities to handle increased urban flooding
A new report on Urban Transport in Yangon and Mandalay provides an assessment of urban mobility in Myanmar’s two largest cities for policymakers.
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 …
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 …
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 …
How an Urban Program in Ethiopia Delivered More than a Million Jobs
Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
Generative urban AI platforms can move from vision into reality in seconds with dozens, if not hundreds, of iterations and scenarios to choose from. Cities, the pulsating hubs of human civilization, ...
Cities across the world are experiencing something no historical map or urban blueprint ever prepared them for. The future climate scenarios that scientists are now modeling aren't just showing ...
Next City: China Is Helping Build Africa’s Cities, But Its Approach Sidelines Local City Planners and Residents
China Is Helping Build Africa’s Cities, But Its Approach Sidelines Local City Planners and Residents
Arcologies are a futuristic urban planning concept that imagines entire cities contained within a single massive structure. The idea was developed by architect Paolo Soleri, who believed dense, ...
Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon’s urban growth boundaries are essential for housing and economic development
Simply adding land to cities or removing planning for housing and urban industrial needs is counterproductive to the problems we face.
Urban flooding is increasingly concerning in Canada, where water drainage systems are at risk of being overwhelmed. Natural watersheds have been greatly altered by construction disturbing the natural ...