C40 2016 Awards announced
On December 1st, C40 announced the winners of the 2016 Cities Awards: Climate Action Plans & Inventories: Portland, United States Adaptation Plans & Assessments: Paris Building…
CityLab -The New Census Portrait of Rural America in 2016
New Census data show that the real differences between the city and the country may not match up with popular perception. CityLab. That rural-urban…
Nature and Cities, a new book from Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
This book will be published in November, 2016, and is available for preorder. Ecologically based urban designs and plans are essential as the world…
There’s a Message for City Planners in Cape Town Plumbing Poll | Next City
Story and Photography by Ann Babe, Next City A mother and father stand in the doorway of their Khayelitsha home, looking on as their…
Governing the Fragmented Metropolis | Christina D. Rosan
Will we ever have a more effective and sustainable approach to developing the metropolitan region? A new book by Christina Rosan
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…
A History of Cities and Urbanization; A Series from The Guardian
In the first in a 50-part series charting the history of the planet’s urbanisation, Jack Shenker explores the ancient metropolis of Alexandria, which set…
[New Book] Population Growth and Rapid Urbanization in the Developing World
by Shaibu Bala Garba, Umar G. Benna Publisher: IGI Global Release Date: June 2016 ISBN: 9781522501879 As the global population continues to boom,…
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…
UN Habitat Lecture Series: Steffen Lehmann, University of Portsmouth
Urban Lectures The UN Habitat urban lectures are a free resource of video lectures, including synopsis, biographies and additional reading materials, open to use…