SDSN USA ranks US cities on SDG progress
the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s United States Network (SDSN USA) launched the 2019 US Cities Sustainable Development Report, SDSN’s third city-level report ranking 105 US…
New UNEP Report: The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization
9 February 2018: The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization report was released by the International Resource Panel, an eminent group of experts set up…
General Assembly of Partners (GAP) Responds to Report of High Level Independent Panel to Assess the Effectiveness of UN HABITAT
On August 29, the 16 Partner Constituent Groups of the General Assembly of Partners (GAP) issued its response to the report of the High Level…
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…
The Guardian | Four of world’s biggest cities to ban diesel cars from their centres
Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City will ban the most polluting cars and vans by 2025 to tackle air pollution. Four of the world’s…
Atlas for the End of the World
On May 20, 1570, Abraham Ortelius—book collector and engraver from Antwerp—published the world’s first Atlas: the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World).[1] With his maps Ortelius…
New Book: The Myth of the Sustainable City
About the book: This book takes you on a unique journey through American history, taking time to consider the forces that shaped the development…
New Book | Baltimore School of Urban Ecology Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
J. Morgan Grove, Mary L. Cadenasso, Steward T. A. Pickett, Gary E. Machlis, and William R. Burch, Jr.; Foreword by Laura A. Ogden A…
Making Cities Work for All – An OECD report on Inclusive Cities
A report from OECD and the Ford Foundation “Cities are places where opportunities for prosperity coexist with stark inequalities between the richest and the…
New Data-Driven Climate Action Planning Tool from the World Bank
The World Bank and partners have designed CURB, a free data-driven climate action planning tool to help cities more easily identify and prioritize cost-effective,…