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- Financing the New Urban Agenda. Only 3% of this amount is available through official development assistance (ODA). This means that cities must strengthen municipal finance, while finding new ways to scale up urban infrastructure finance.
- Promoting territorial development. Thick and persistent divisions between places doing well and those that are not are exacerbating inequalities and human suffering, fueling discontent and disrupting development.
- Building resilience to natural disasters and climate change. As cities grow, so does their exposure and vulnerability to natural disasters. In recent years, the World Bank has worked in more than 7,000 cities and towns across 130 countries, investing over $4 billion during fiscal year 2017 in disaster risk management, and committing over $50 billion through more than 900 projects with climate-related activities.
- Inclusive Transport in Medellín, Colombia
- Walking Safely in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
- Co-Creating Public Spaces in Durban, South Africa
- Waste Pickers Organize in Pune, India
- Integrating Nature and Public Transit in Eskisehir, Turkey
- WRI Ross Prize For Cities
As Medellín, Colombia has spread out along the sides of the Aburra Valley, its poorer neighborhoods have become increasingly disconnected from the city center—not only topographically, but socially and economically. Residents of the city’s hillside slums have historically lacked easy access to jobs, education and other services, with commutes somet...
Cities in sub-Saharan Africa face a neglected public health crisis: Children are twice as likely to die in a road crash than in any other region of the world. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the number of fatalities is poised to increase as the city’s population doublesbetween 2012 and 2030 and car ownership rises. In 2014, the non-profit Amendset out ...
Informal workers like waste pickers and street vendors are the backbone of many cities around the world. By some accounts, they represent 50 to 80 percentof urban employment globally, yet they’re largely left out of public policy decisions. Since 2008, Asiye eTafuleni(AeT) has helped change this dynamic in South Africa. In Durban’s Warwick Junction...
Waste collection is a huge problem for many rapidly growing cities. By 2050, South Asia will doublethe trash it produces to more than 660 million tons annually. In Pune, India's first worker-owned waste-pickers’ cooperative is not only helping to create an efficient waste-collection system that reaches more residents, it’s showing cities how to inc...
Urbanization often goes hand-in-hand with environmental degradation, including waste disposal problems, poor water and air quality, and the loss of wetlands and forests. In the post-industrial city of Eskisehir, Turkey, congestion was clogging the city center, and the central Porsuk River became one of the region’s most polluted bodies of water. To...
The finalists reflect the creativity spurred by a global move to cities and the potential for sustainable cities that work for people and the planet. In the coming weeks, we’ll be exploring these pioneering projects in more depth. In April 2019, one will be selected as the winner of the $250,000 WRI Ross Prize for Cities. Learn more about the WRI R...
- Anne Maassen, Madeleine Galvin
- 2018
Rapid Urbanization ©madridiaro.es. In addition to pollution, a notable increase in traffic awaits many future megacities. If improperly managed, they could end up like Beijing or Mumbai, with massive traffic problems that degrade the city’s living experience. To avoid ending up with extreme traffic problems, the development of cities must ...
Feb 25, 2020 · Cities today are responsible for some 75 per cent of global energy and resource use, and some 70 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Rapid urbanization and unsustainable practices in all sectors from transport to buildings and construction to waste management to energy will amplify the environmental impacts of cities.
The chairman of the London County Council described his city as "a tumour, an elephantiasis sucking into its gorged system half the life and the blood and the bone of the rural districts." Urban ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Nature 484, 161–162 (2012). Article CAS Google Scholar Gong, P. et al. Urbanisation and health in China. Lancet 379, 843–852 (2012).
Nov 8, 2022 · At MIT, Nathan is pivoting to a fresh new framing for questions on urbanization. Wielding a public source map of cities around the world, he is scrutinizing the geometry of street grids in 1,000 of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest cities “to think about urban order,” he says.
