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…
GAP Partner Constituent Group- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)
The General Assembly of Partners (GAP) is an engagement platform that that aims to support stakeholder contributions to the ‘New Urban Agenda,’ the outcome document of the Habitat…
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…
City Space Architecture
City Space Architecture is a nonprofit organization, established in Bologna (Italy) in 2013, aimed to create a network of people from all over the…
Webcast: “The Connected City: Trends and Developments Driving Smart City Innovation”
The Webcast “The Connected City: Trends and Developments Driving Smart City Innovation,” produced by MIT Technology Review and IEEE Collabratec About the Webcast The…
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…
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…