100% Renewable Energy Network – ICLEI USA
ICLEI (USA). The 100% Renewable Energy Network is a convenient and free platform to highlight the leadership and best practices of communities powered by…
Urbanisation – an Urgent Challenge and Massive Opportunity for Africa
Urbanisation is both an urgent challenge and a massive opportunity for Africa, with the potential to transform the daily lives off millions of people,…
From Steel to Startups, Pittsburgh Tries to Cultivate an Ecosystem for Innovation
Can a midsize Rust Belt city compete with Silicon Valley? MIT Technology Review: Shortly after Luis von Ahn helped launch Duolingo, his popular language-learning…
Buildings Day 2015 at COP21, December 3
BUILDINGS DAY AT COP21 – 3 DECEMBER 2015 The first ‘Buildings Day’, to be held at COP21 on 3 December 2015, provides an opportunity…
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…
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…