COVID-19: How we can build back sustainable and healthier cities
A journey to economic development
A journey to economic development
The COVID-19 crisis has unveiled the structural weaknesses of not only our economic systems, but also, more critically, our health systems. The world is currently confronting the ineptitu...
COVID-19 is confounding planning for basic human needs, including shelter. Around the world, home builders are vigilantly reading tea leaves in the fog, trying to figure out how to surviv...
Last month, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would allow its employees, currently working from home in accordance with social-distancing protocols, to stay there for goo...
COVID-19 was not just a predictable crisis — it was predicted. An array of official guidelines for pandemic preparedness and response, from the World Health Organization and others, highl...
Some 56% of Helsinki’s carbon dioxide emissions comes from its heating. Even if the city managed to cut its heat consumption by one fifth using energy efficiency measures, it would still ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought some of the world's wealthiest global cities to their knees. In the current epicentre, New York, roughly one-fifth of all residents are infected and more...
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be receding in some parts of Western Europe, East Asia and North America, but it's rapidly taking-off in Latin America, Africa and South Asia. ...
Across the globe, well-functioning cities do one thing really well – they bring people together. Social and economic interactions are the hallmark of city life, making people more product...
Cities are currently being tested to the extreme with the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
Dense populations, frenetically paced commerce and global connections have made cities economic, political and cultural powerhouses.
Humankind has always been innovative in developing ways to move ourselves and our goods. From inventing vessels that sail the world to trains, cars and airplanes, the focus has always bee...
When it comes to infectious disease outbreaks, cities are dual-edged. To be sure, cities are a big part of the problem. They intensify the spread and transmission of infectious disease th...
Urban violence is predictable; it concentrates in specific places, among certain people and at very particular times. This means violence is hyperlocal, concentrated in "hot spot" neighbo...
The world is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed and scale, with more than half the global population living in cities today… rising to nearly 7 out of 10 people in cities by 2050.