Integrating violence against women prevention in urban transport | Asian Development Blog
A quick reference guide for for mainstreaming prevention of and response to violence against women and girls in urban transport interventions. By Laurence Levaque,…
HUD Case Study: Macon Children’s Promise Neighborhood Plan
HUD USER publishes a series of case studies based on federal, state and local strategies that increase affordable housing opportunities, apply sustainable features and…
UNSW to offer Australia’s first Master’s degree in urban renewal and housing
UNSW is launching Australia’s first Master’s degree program in urban renewal and housing to support the housing challenges of the future. Aimed at future…
Africities Summit this week in Johaneesburg, South Africa
7th Africities Summit, 29Nov – 03Dec Johannesburg, South Africa The seventh Africities Summit is held every three years and looks at issues affecting urban…
Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa
Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa, edited by Africa Centre for Cities (ACC), powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa’s “mean streets”.
Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia | World Bank Report
“The number of people in South Asia’s cities rose by 130 million between 2000 and 2011–more than the entire population of Japan. This was…
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…
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
By helping our Members to make their cities and regions sustainable, low-carbon, resilient, ecomobile, biodiverse, resource-efficient and productive, healthy and happy, with a green…
POLIS Institute
Polis Institute is a not-for-profit corporation in Florida dedicated to designing solutions to social problems. Our design process focuses on researching, designing, and equipping…
Civic Data Lab
The Civic Data Design Lab works with data to understand it for public good.We seek to develop alternative practices which can make the work…