As urban populations grow, the ability of cities to generate jobs and drive development is increasingly critical. When urban centers expand, they foster innovation, entrepreneurship, and employment, helping entire regions and countries to become more prosperous and productive.
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the citys economic resilience. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes.
Nature-based solutions like urban farming, terraces, and green corridors can help cities with climate challenges including urban heat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions best meet their needs? In Kinshasa, indigenous knowledge, innovative tools, and proactive local government are helping to answer the question.
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 responsible for implementing the Zero Slum Program.
WASHINGTON, The World Banks Board of Executive Directors has approved $400 million in financing for a new project that will provide safely managed water, sanitation and basic hygiene services, and help improve the institutional and financial performance of local urban administration in Punjab province.
The Romanian Urban Policy is designed to advise on the vision of a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient urban development in line with the EUs Urban Agenda. It represents a common agenda of the public authorities at central and local levels in order to improve the urban development framework, by providing a set of coherent measures and by coordination and correlation of the sectoral fields ...
new report on Urban Transport in Yangon and Mandalay provides an assessment of urban mobility in Myanmars two largest cities for policymakers.
A new World Bank-financed investment will enhance mobility and accessibility in Tanzanias capital, Dodoma, unlocking economic opportunities and creating over 10,000 new jobs by 2030, while boosting the citys economic output by 2%.
