Rethinking City Revenue and Finance

This report was prepared in collaboration with PwC and identifies how cities can rethink traditional revenues and financing mechanisms to enable cities to build back better and provide cl...

Delivering Climate Resilient Cities Using a Systems Approach

This report provides cities with an actionable strategy to enable cities take a systems approach to climate resilience strategies. A systems approach leverages linkages across multiple in...

Accelerating Urban Inclusion for a Just Recovery

This report draws global attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened stark inequalities in cities around the world. This report makes the urgent case for greater urban inclusion, ...

Using Digital Technology for a Green and Just Recovery in Cities

This report makes a case for the need for systematic digitalization in cities, the need to pursue an outcomes-based planning, design and implementation of digitalization projects, the str...

Net Zero Carbon Cities: An Integrated Approach

Cities cover 3% of the earth’s land surface yet they create more than 70% of all carbon emissions. To keep global temperature increases to 1.5°C or below, cities have to achieve net-zero....

Making Affordable Housing a Reality in Cities

Agile Cities: Preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Industrial Internet of Things: Safety and Security Protocol

Circular Economy in Cities: Evolving the model for a sustainable urban future

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Urban Development and Services Initiative has released its new whitepaper on the Circular Economy in Cities: evolving the model for a sustainable urba...

Data Driven Cities: 20 Stories of Innovation

The need for cities to fully harness the potential of data constantly flowing through them has never been more urgent. Data Driven Cities: 20 Stories of Innovation, highlights examples fr...

Migration and Its Impact on Cities

The World Economic Forum has released a report taking a deep dive on migration and cities, exploring the types, causes and patterns of migration, the most affected corridors and cities, t...

Harnessing Public-Private Cooperation to Deliver the New Urban Agenda

As this World Economic Forum report emphasizes, the future of cities largely depends on the way urbanization is managed and public-private collaboration is leveraged to implement the New ...

Inspiring Future Cities & Urban Services: Shaping the Future of Urban Development & Services Initiative

Top Ten Urban Innovations

The Future of Urban Development Initiative: Dalian and Zhangjiakou Champion City Strategy

With 54% of the Chinese population living in cities, China has six megacities of more than 10 million inhabitants and 103 cities of more than one million inhabitants. This presents China ...

The Future of Urban Development Initiative: Tianjin Champion City Strategy

Global Agenda Council on Urbanization 2012-2014