
Cities
A city is a large human settlement. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. This concentration also can have significant negative consequences, such as forming urban heat islands, concentrating pollution, and stressing water supplies and other resources. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of …
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WRI: World Resources Institute · 6 December 2023 English
implementation process, challenges, learnings, and results of complete street interventions in eight cities from different regions of Brazil. …
professional training aimed at more sustainable cities. For decades, traffic science has sought to ensure … prosperity for everyone. When designing urban space, cities have a chance to de-prioritize the automobile … Antonio Lindau WRI Brasil Cities Program Director PREFACE Brazilian cities are diverse in their characteristics … Complete Streets program has supported 21 Brazilian cities in projects that redistribute public space, prioritizing … prioritizing pedestrians and bicyclists. This network of cities is a promising sign that the old paradigm of road …
WRI: World Resources Institute · 7 October 2023 English
working in Bengaluru in order to understand the results of its deep engagement through the Sustainable Cities program. It captures a decade of growth, work, outcomes and learnings for the organization, along …
Institute’s (WRI) Ross Center for Sustainable Cities (starting with its origins as EMBARQ India), has … Bengaluru one of the WRI Ross Center’s “deep dive” cities. ▪ This study uses a mixed-methods approach to … BACKGROUND We at the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities believe that “diving deep” in a particular region … India to the WRI India Ross Center for Sustainable Cities (WRII-RC), the scope and approach of our work … approach, we also developed a program to help cities better manage their water resources by identifying …
WRI: World Resources Institute · 7 October 2023
This paper discusses WRI’s experience working in Mexico City to understand the results of its deep engagement work in the city, starting as the Center for Sustainable Transportation (Centro de …
Resources Institute (WRI) Ross Center for Sustainable Cities has had a long-standing presence in Mexico City … experiences and outcomes of projects undertaken in cities is essential for catalyzing the kind of city-wide … WRI Mexico (then CTS) established the Connect Cities network of city officials across Mexico and Latin … development—the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities believes that “diving deep” in a particular geography … effectively achieve its goals, and those of the cities it works in, at scale. Working across the network …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 October 2023 English
population was by far the most lethally violent social or professional group in any of the three cities. The team behind the Medieval Murder Maps – a digital resource that plots crime scenes based on translated …
violent social or professional group in any of the three cities. The team behind the Medieval Murder Maps – a digital …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 September 2023 English
1. Rating the Polish cities. 2. New jobs at Open Philanthropy. 3. Paul Krugman on interest rates (NYT). I am not persuaded, but there is a coherent argument here and this is currently one of the most important …
<p>1. Rating the Polish cities. 2. New jobs at Open Philanthropy. 3. Paul Krugman on interest rates (NYT) …
RSA: The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce · 28 September 2023
potential of the UK’s cities UK Urban Futures Commission Unleashing the potential of the UK’s cities UK Urban Futures Commission 3 i i Foreword – Co-chairs of the Commission Our cities are magnets for skills … Haldane and Marvin Rees 4 Unleashing the potential of the UK’s cities UK Urban Futures Commission Unleashing the potential of the UK’s cities UK Urban Futures Commission 5 iii A word from our Commissioners … ventures and special purpose vehicles, transform the UK’s cities, and their many of a city, economically, socially and Yet the potential of the UK’s cities is largely and publicly capitalised investment funds …
CAF: Clean Air Fund · 28 September 2023 English
The only global analysis of funding from international development donors to tackle air pollution. We highlight trends and gaps in international aid and public climate finance spending from 2015 to …
pollution over the next 5 years, in 42 Indian cities. Latin America & Caribbean - 1% Europe - 1% 37% … CLIMATE ACTION, CITIES ARE WELL-PLACED TO SPEARHEAD ACTION ON AIR POLLUTION. The top three cities receiving … study in Box 3.1).l Comparing the most polluted cities globally (by population-weighted annual average … Figure 2.5), and underlines the fact that most cities are still far from being able to achieve safe levels … Global Air Quality Funding 2023 FIGURE 2.5: TOP 10 CITIES WITH THE HIGHEST POPULATION-WEIGHTED ANNUAL AVERAGE …
ECFR: European Council on Foreign Relations · 28 September 2023 English
The EU is facing a make-or-break moment in terms of whether it is willing to pay the costs – both financial and political – of moving forward with decarbonisation at …
governments, will also be important, for example between cities and between companies and trade unions that see …
AFT: American Federation of Teachers · 28 September 2023 English
The math standards led the Testing has been improving during the 1990s and is way, emerging from the work of the National Council slowly being aligned to new and higher …
“educational munity level, and educators in inner cities, who often reform,” we don’t have it adequately …
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development · 28 September 2023 English