Urban Heat and Water Management

Facing the heat: How Cities in Bangladesh are Tackling Urban Heat Risk

By |2025-07-09T12:41:14+02:00June 24th 2025|Resilient Cities and Climate|

This article highlights how Bangladeshi cities are at the forefront of tackling the growing threat of urban heat. Based on their experience with local governments, Vassiliki Kravva and Viktoria Pues share three essential principles to help cities everywhere build resilience against rising temperatures.

Urban Heat and Water Management

Sponge Watersheds: Nature’s Blueprint for Resilient Cities

By |2025-07-09T12:41:18+02:00June 11th 2025|Resilient Cities and Climate|

What if our cities and landscapes stopped fighting water and instead absorbed, stored, and slowly released rain like a natural sponge? Cecilia Polacow Herzog, Osvaldo Moura Rezende and João Luís Bittencourt Guimarães urge us to embrace water as an ally in building resilient, sustainable, and livable urban spaces.

Connective Cities

Campinas Turns Trash into Treasure with Bold Green Space Initiative

By |2024-09-18T09:11:03+02:00September 17th 2024|Resilient Cities and Climate|

In Campinas, a linear parks programme has been breathing new life into forgotten spaces, turning them into thriving green areas that bring people closer to nature and each other. By Gabriel Neves

Liveable Cities

The New Traders Hub in Galeshewe: Boosting South African Businesses

By |2024-01-05T12:58:15+01:00May 4th 2023|Finance, Gender and Inequalities|

The open-air arena in the township of Galeshewe in Kimberley, South Africa, is being transformed under the Cities CHALLENGE 2.0. The centrepiece is a new “Informal Traders Hub” offering a safe, sustainable, and gender-responsive environment for local female traders.

WORLD URBAN FORUM

Transforming Cities for a Liveable Future for All

By |2024-01-04T16:03:07+01:00June 14th 2022|Integrated Planning, Sustainable Infrastructure|

Making cities liveable for all remains one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. By Ingolf Dietrich, Commissioner for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany.

LIVEABLE CITIES

“It Is Ok To Not Be Ok” – How A Mental Health Programme Changes A Community

By |2024-01-04T16:20:01+01:00May 19th 2022|Integrated Planning, Sustainable Infrastructure|

The Friendship Bench is a community-based mental health counselling programme in Zimbabwe. Dr Ruth Verhey reflects on the contributions of such programmes to liveable communities for all.

LIVEABLE CITIES

The New Face of Bogotá’s Bronx

By |2024-01-04T16:20:25+01:00May 17th 2022|Gender and Inequalities, Integrated Planning|

Bogotá's Bronx used to be an area infamous for crime and violence. Gabriel Ortiz van Meerbeke outlines how the arts and the cultural industry are transforming the area into a liveable district.

LIVEABLE CITIES

How Rwanda Is Building Liveable Cities Of All Sizes With Practical Climate Actions

By |2024-01-04T16:20:42+01:00May 12th 2022|Finance, Resilient Cities and Climate|

Rwanda has some of the most ambitious climate goals in Africa and its urban leaders are planning and implementing tangible actions to get there. These will increase city dwellers’ quality of life and protect the environment.

LIVEABLE CITIES

Empowerment Through Blocking-Out In Cape Town’s Informal Settlements

By |2024-01-04T15:41:23+01:00May 5th 2022|Housing and Construction, Sustainable Infrastructure|

How can architectural solutions contribute to increase liveability in informal settlements? Alfredo Brillembourg portrays how the process of blocking-out facilitated the empowerment and upgrading in the informal settlement of Khayelitsha.

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