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Walkability in Pakistan
Walking is a fundamental human activity that has been around since the dawn of civilization. However, with the rise of motorized transportation, cities around...
Making drones suitable for cities
Unmanned aerial vehicles will make their way into urban skies only if the safety of people below can be ensured.
By TOM CASSAUWERS
The Spanish resort town...
A City-Led Climate Resilience
Climate change is becoming a major cause of an increasing rate of weather catastrophes. The heat-trapping greenhouse gas is making Earth's temperature warms up...
Advanced forecasting to help millions on coasts and in cities cope with climate-change impacts
By SARAH WILD
In the freezing reaches of Greenland, fissures in the ice sheet mark the battle lines in the fight against climate change. Greenhouse gases...
‘Act Local to Go Global’ provides universal theme for World Cities Day
The actions cities take locally to create a sustainable world will reverberate globally, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, underlining the need to...
Making cities safer for women: UN report calls for radical rethink
Cities have an in-built bias against women, who overwhelmingly describe them as unsafe and unwelcoming. A UN report released on Monday, calls for a...
New European Bauhaus under Cohesion Policy: €50 million call for innovative projects in cities
The European Urban Initiative (EUI) is launching today a €50 million call to support urban innovation and cities' capabilities to build a sustainable urban...
European cities team up to expand clean energy, cut fossil fuels
BY ALEX WHITING
Cities are central to the battle against global warming – they consume two-thirds of global energy and account for more than 70% of...
How to build more inclusive, climate-ready cities
The World Economic Forum has released a series of four reports on how cities can take a systems approach to finance and deliver urban...
Inclusive cities critical to post-pandemic recovery
A UN conference on transforming the world's urban areas is underway in Poland this week, which will include a dialogue on urban crisis recovery...