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A web-based platform using satellite data and climate scenarios helps urban planners build resilient and livable cities.
Strategies include a regulatory planning framework, area-based development, green infrastructure, and community engagement.
Rehabilitating natural systems with green infrastructure is key to building sustainability and resilience to climate change in urban areas.
The GrEEEn Cities Initiative brings together policies, strategies, sector plans, regulations, financial incentives, technologies, governance institutions, civil society, and private sector interventions.
An integrated, green, and people-centric urban development strategy can help make cities inclusive and sustainable.
Internet-connected “smart” devices can help transform fast-developing cities in Asia and the Pacific into safe and sustainable urban centers.
India should create city-level economic visions, integrate master planning with economic goals, and ensure that a business-friendly regulatory environment extends to local levels.
Ciclovia, Bogota's car-free days, has inspired more than 100 cities to make space for walking and cycling to improve public health and the environment.
Start resilience projects with people-centered, evidence-based planning, combining infrastructure, community engagement, and adaptive learning.
Secondary cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have an opportunity to avoid gridlocked growth patterns and to integrate sustainable energy and transport solutions.