Identifying Poverty From Space via The Atlantic
Robinson Meyer, 24 August 2016 Imagine the Earth at night—the vast and curving darkness, splotched with rivulets of light. It is a gorgeous…
Will Rio Be a ‘Smarter’ City After the Olympic Games? via CityLab
Juan Pablo Garnham, Aug 8, 2016 This story was originally published in Spanish on the sister site, CityLab Latino. Brazilians have had a lot…
New Book | The City of Tomorrow
Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the…
Regions will drive the success of the Sustainable Development Goals
Rolf Alter, Director of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate @raltergov The ratification of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN General…
Air pollution to cause 6-9 million premature deaths and cost 1% GDP by 2060 – OECD
Outdoor air pollution could cause 6 to 9 million premature deaths a year by 2060 and cost 1% of global GDP – around USD…
New UN HABITAT tool will map the ‘science of cities’
With the urban growth boom driving trends that will affect all aspects of sustainable development, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN HABITAT) is…
OECD Labor Force Statistics 2015
The annual edition of Labor Force Statistics provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as…
Initiative for A Competitive Inner City (ICIC)
Founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City is a nonprofit research and strategy organization…
World Bank Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends
Old economics explains the new economy well. When we buy something, we spend time and money searching for it, comparing it with other products,…
100 Resilient Cities | Water Management Solutions
Through the Network Exchange Program, 100RC is helping to scale best-practice solutions around the globe to address urban water challenges. Network Exchange Program offers…