UN-Habitat Launches Network Eleven – supporting SDG 11
The Digital Technologies for Sustainable Urbanization Network (Network Eleven), which will support implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) to “make cities…
On World Toilet Day, one billion people have nowhere to go
Some 2.4 billion people around the world don’t have access to decent sanitation and more than a billion are forced to defecate in the…
Driverless Bus Testing Coming to Bay Area – Next City
California transportation authority sees first mile/last mile solution. When the robot revolution comes and intelligent machines rule over humans, Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA)…
Stony Island Arts Bank on Chicago’s South Side
One might think that an abandoned 1920s bank on Chicago’s South Side, crumbling from top to bottom—the roof long collapsed, exposing the interior to…
Global Alliance for Urban Crises nearing launch | Citiscope
Major humanitarian and cities groups are coming together to create a new alliance that will attempt to overhaul how the international community and local…
South African Cities Network reveals growth of smart towns
A new South African Cities Network (SACN) report assessing the financial fitness of nine of the largest cities in South Africa has found cities…
Afghanistan holds national urban conference – UN-Habitat
Kabul, 9 November 2015— On the occasion of the “World Urbanism Day”, also known as “World Town Planning Day”, the government of Afghanistan held…
2016 Aid and International Development Forum Africa Summit comes to Ethiopia
Nardos Bekele-Thomas, UNDP Kenya Resident Representative and Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in Kenya More than 250 senior representatives and advisors from…
U.N. chief warns against cuts in development aid to finance response to refugee crisis
GENEVA – Reducing development assistance to finance the cost of refugee flows is counter-productive, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today, declaring that “helping people in need should not…
Flowers Bloom to Provide Shade and Light to Pedestrians in Jerusalem
Installed to beautify the space of Vallero Square in Jerusalem, these four interactive flowers bloom and close in a fluid response to the pedestrians…