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…
Center for Urban Innovation
The Center for Urban Innovation: Supports interdisciplinary, scholarly research on urban sustainability and the expanding role of intermediary institutions in the design and governance…
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…
ICLEI Case Studies | Shimla, India
ICLEI Case Studies The ICLEI Case Study series highlights the role of ICLEI Members and other local governments as key drivers and implementers of…
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS)
Research carried out in the laboratories run by the CNRS Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS) helps to build the essential theories and analytical…
Resources for the Future (RFF)
Resources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonpartisan organization that conducts rigorous economic research and analysis to help leaders make better decisions and…
The new Urban Water Innovation Network (UWIN)
Aug 3, 2015 With support from a $12 million cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation, a consortium of 14 academic institutions and key…
Newly updated, The Environmental Planning Handbook
The Environmental Planning Handbook ‘s author Tom Daniels shows local governments, nonprofits, and citizens step by step how to create an action plan for…
Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements
In the Commons blog, David talks more about his book, Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements,Shaping the Self-Constructed City, and the process he’s developed called Informal Armatures (IA), a simple working and design approach to foster the emergence of new informal settlements and accompany their sustainable evolution.