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Reimagining Urban Governance in Asia and the Pacific

January 28, 2025 Limabenla Jamir
As Asia and the Pacific region urbanize at an unprecedented pace, the need for transformative urban governance has never been more urgent. Over half of the region’s population now resides in cities, which generate over […]
Cities and urban development

Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS) 2023 Report

November 16, 2023 Limabenla Jamir
The Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS) is a comprehensive diagnostic of the state of India’s city-systems – the complex, mostly-invisible factors (such as laws, policies, institutions, institutional processes) that underpin urban governance and strongly […]
Africa

Bridging Africa’s urban infrastructure gap

September 13, 2023 Marina Jandrevska
Urbanization, climate change, and global challenges are putting African cities and local governments under increasing pressure to provide better urban infrastructure and services. However, most African cities and local governments remain under-resourced and unable to […]
Cities and urban development

Integrating Climate Change into Spatial Planning in Kosovo

February 6, 2022 LPSAManager
Climate change has become one of the biggest global threats and its impacts are already being faced by many cities and human settlements around the world, including those in Kosovo. The way cities are planned, […]
Cities and urban development

Climate resilience in the global South depends on greater attention to urban governance systems

December 7, 2021 LPS Alliance
As far back as 2006, cities were found to account for over 70% of energy-related carbon emissions.  And cities are growing rapidly in both population and land area covered.  The UN reports that ninety percent […]
Brazil

UN-Habitat’s Handbook For City Managers

September 25, 2021 Tianyu Chen
Urban governance is identified by UN-Habitat as a fundamental factor in the implementation and fulfillment of the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals. Intended to help city managers and other stakeholders achieve these goals, […]
Cities and urban development

Transforming urban governance using research

June 5, 2021 Tianyu Chen
Cities are evolving quickly in the 21st century. City leaders are facing struggles that they have never faced before, including the impacts of climate change, migration, security, and a more fragile global economy. Effective city […]
Events

Urban Governance: Resilient and Smart Cities (2021)

January 16, 2021 LPS Alliance
With the majority of the world population living in urban environments today, cities have become the engines of (economic) development and innovation. At the same time, cities have been forced to confront many of the […]

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