New Cities Alliance Joint Work Programme on Resilient Cities
The Cities Alliance is a global partnership for urban poverty reduction and the promotion of the role of cities in sustainable development. The Cities…
UN Announces High-Level Panel On Women’s Economic Empowerment
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the creation of the first High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment that will target the persistent economic gender gap across the…
New Urbanization Guidelines For China’s Cities
A new set of guidelines titled “Green and Smart Urban Development Guidelines” have been published through a collaborative effort by the China Development Bank Capital, the biggest source…
Citiscope | The challenge and potential of informal settlements
The United Nations estimates that more than 860 million people are currently living in urban slums! It defines a slum as a place where…
Finnish city Mäntsälä using data centres to heat its hot water
Data centres owned by Yandex in Mäntsälä, Southern Finland are being used to heat the city’s water supply. The initiative started functioning after the…
Season 3 of UN-Habitat Urban Lectures launches
UPCOMING URBAN LECTURE RELEASES: 29 January: Steffen Lehmann, architect and urban designer 12 February: Ana Falu, National University of Argentina, Cordoba 26 February:…
Bringing innovations in funding to government, developing world
USAID’s Global Development Lab is bringing private-sector investment strategies to developing countries. The USAID Global Development Lab, less than two years old, is bringing…
This week: The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture: An Era of Urbanization
The Global Forum on Food and Agricultures aims to inform agricultural ministers on how to supply growing urban centers with safe and healthy food.…
Habitat III must acknowledge children and youth in shaping the new urban agenda
Such a role for children and the youth traditionally has gone unrecognized. The New Urban Agenda will fail if we don’t reverse this trend.…
The New Urban Agenda must prompt planners to recognize informal labour
By Marty Chen, Citiscope Urban informal workers represent the broad base of the urban economy in most developing countries. On average, these account for…