Lisa Chamberlain is the founder of Strategies for City Builders, a communications and business development practice working with professionals engaged in all things urban, including architecture, planning, real estate, economic development, transit and climate adaptation. Previously, she was the communications lead for the World Economic Forum's Centre for Urban Transformation, as well as a commercial real estate reporter for The New York Times, the Executive Director of the Urban Design Forum and a legislative aide on Capitol Hill focused on urban regeneration issues.
Urban transformation has been a hot topic in 2023 – whether it’s the changing face of our cities, tackling the ever-emerging impacts of climate change, or the incredible innovations in te...
The Argentinian city of Mendoza is the latest to use the Global New Mobility Coalition’s (GNMC) Urban Mobility Scorecard tool to benchmark and improve its sustainable mobility plans.
In January 2024, the world’s largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, will reach her new home in Miami, Florida. At 1,200 feet long and a quarter of a million tons in weight, with seven swi...
Three ground-breaking public-private collaborations which have made a difference to cities around the world have been recognized at the World Economic Forum's Urban Transformation Summit.
The United Nations' first Global Chief Heat Officer, Eleni Myrivili, is urging political leaders to take decisive action to address rapidly rising temperatures in cities, particularly in ...
India has given the green light to a $7 billion plan that aims to introduce electric buses in nearly 170 cities, as part of the country's efforts to reduce air pollution and promote susta...
Intense heatwaves across the northern hemisphere are raising urgent questions about the way cities operate. Some are already looking at policy changes to adapt to increasingly frequent hi...
With global temperatures in June reaching record levels and climate scientists warning that El Niño conditions are set to make 2023 one of the hottest years on record, "urban heat islands...
California US congressman Rep. Robert Garcia has introduced a bill banning minimum parking requirements near mass transit hubs to reduce emissions in cities and address housing shortages.
Housing prices in cities around the world are falling and predicted to come down by as much as 20% in some countries, according to Goldman Sachs, but this isn’t easing the affordability c...
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Las ciudades y el transporte siempre han evolucionado juntos. En el siglo XIX y principios del XX, el ferrocarril y los tranvías abrieron las ciudades a nuevos tipos de desarrollo urbano ...
Cities and transport have always evolved together. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, railways and trams opened cities up to new kinds of urban development on the edges of dense, walka...
With more than 80% of world trade volume carried by sea, ports are crucial infrastructure for providing everything from food to fuel, electronics to cars. As we have seen with the disrupt...
La rápida urbanización combinada con el aumento de la incertidumbre y las tensiones geopolíticas ha ejercido una enorme presión sobre las ciudades para que hagan frente a retos cada vez m...
