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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Sumaya Saluja from The Asia Foundation on inclusion, equality and participatory governance for liveable cities.
How to rebuild a city after a devastating war? Dalia Mokayed emphasises the crucial role of cultural heritage.
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.
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.
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.
Shyam Khandekar explains how cities can be built with humans as the focus of attention.
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.
What does liveability mean from an African cities' perspective and how do we get there? Taibat Lawanson presents an unconventional and compelling take on this question.
