AFFORDABLE CITIES

Land Value Capture: Creating the Financial Means for Affordable Cities

By |2024-01-04T16:29:16+01:00July 19th 2022|

Creating liveable, affordable cities requires significant public investments. How to finance them? The answer may lie in land value capture. This financing tool allows municipalities to recover the land value gains that result from public action such as zoning changes or investment in public infrastructure, to invest them back into the city. Sena Segbedzi, OECD Champion Mayors for Inclusive Growth Initiative, shares stories of success from all over the world.

WORLD URBAN FORUM

Urban Challenges in Post-COVID Times

By |2024-01-04T15:50:14+01:00June 30th 2022|

The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated existing challenges in the domain of social inclusion and housing. Cynthia Goytia on how cities can rise to these challenges and which solutions have already proven successful in urban Latin America.

URBAN LABS AND INNOVATION

Urban Labs in Latin America: Participatory and Effective Interventions

By |2024-01-04T15:44:24+01:00April 4th 2022|

A strategy for planning that ensures to include citizens and addresses several challenges at once, urban labs can be found in many cities in Latin America. Simone Sandholz, Lucas de Carvalho Turmena, Jorgelina Hardoy, and Florencia Almansi with some examples from urban labs in Latin America.

Resilience Education: Methodological Support Modules for Guatemalan Schools

By |2024-01-04T15:21:05+01:00February 1st 2022|

Resilience can be learned, and what better place to do so than in schools? Jorge Ruiz and Mayté González from Wetlands International LAC present a tool kit for resilience education they developed together with teachers in Guatemala.

Learning from Latin America’s Informal Settlements and Urban Policies

By |2024-01-04T14:25:41+01:00March 18th 2021|

Informal housing is a common phenomenon in Latin America, and governmental regulations are designed to counteract it. However, some of them have had the opposite effect. Cynthia Goytia on its underlying dynamics and a necessary shift in urban policies.

Energy Efficiency Policies and Net-Zero Ambitions: Collaborative Public-Private Partnerships Across Latin America

By |2024-01-04T14:27:30+01:00February 24th 2021|

Juanita Alvarez outlines how the Green Building Councils of Latin America employed Public Private Partnerships to join forces for sustainable development.

Upgrading Precarious Neighbourhoods is Key for Post-Pandemic Recovery

By |2024-01-04T14:08:32+01:00February 2nd 2021|

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the planet to ‘stay at home’ and ‘wash hands’. But in Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 100 million inhabitants lack adequate housing and sanitation. Could upgrading precarious neighbourhoods hold the key for post-pandemic recovery? By Anacláudia Rossbach et al

COVID-19 Responses: The Urban Innovations that are Here to Stay

By |2024-01-04T14:11:59+01:00December 1st 2020|

Cities, citizens, and institutions constantly evolve and are typically very resilient – according to Isidora Larraín and Pauline Claramunt. The authors present three urban innovations implemented in cities around the world that may just prove that COVID-19 responses hold the potential to become long-term solutions to long-standing problems, especially in South America.

Green Recovery in Cities: From Instant Reaction to a Sustainable Future

By |2024-01-04T14:02:48+01:00October 20th 2020|

All over the world, cities are grappling with the pandemic's social and economic impacts. Carmen Vogt, Philip Koch, and Lukas Prinz present some inspiring examples from Latin America that showcase how cities can build back better.

Restoring our Sound Equilibrium: Fighting Noise Pollution in Mexico City

By |2024-01-04T13:30:20+01:00June 26th 2020|

Noise is one of the top environmental hazards. Facing ever-growing cities, one wonders: is there anything we can do? Yes, there is. Jimena de Gortari Ludlow, expert in urban acoustics, examines the unique soundscape of the world’s fifth largest city and offers practical solutions.

Why Care About Trees in Cities?

By |2024-01-04T09:54:52+01:00April 2nd 2020|

Forests provide tremendous benefits to urban areas such as clean air and water, climate resilience and biodiversity, human health and well-being. They also provide jobs, recreation, and a suite of nature-based solutions for city infrastructure, argues the international alliance Cities4Forests.

Wellbeing in the Time of Cities: The Sweet City Vision

By |2024-01-04T11:55:11+01:00March 24th 2020|

Curridabat, Costa Rica, is dealing with several issues that are common to municipalities around the world. The answer they found, however, is a truly unique one that considers everyone living in Curridabat a city dweller – human or not.

Visiting and Recognising San Pablo, Ecuador

By |2024-01-04T13:24:46+01:00March 5th 2020|

Narrated from a community leader's viewpoint, we take a look at the neighbourhood of San Pablo, Ecuador, where the project "Guardians of the Hill" conserves urban ecosystems while at the same time empowering female community members.

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