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UN's Shanghai Manual Launches to Guide Urban Futures

November 19, 2011 by Warren Karlenzig
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A powerful triumvirate, the United Nations, Bureau International Des Expositions and the mayor of Shanghai, released this week The Shanghai Manual: Guide to 21st Century Sustainable Urban Development. This timely manual is aimed at helping leaders of the world's cities use integrated urban planning, management, financing and technology to green their economies and build climate and economic resilience. [read more]

UN Rio+20 Agenda Galvanizes Sustainability Community on Cities

October 31, 2011 by Warren Karlenzig
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As Rio+20 takes shape (officially, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, follow-up to the historic UN 1992 "Earth Summit," held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), the issue of sustainable cities appears to be taking center stage in planning for the June 2012 event dedicated to marshalling the global Green Economy. "Cities... [read more]

Tackling Congestion in Vietnam’s Biggest City

October 18, 2011 by This Big City
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This post is by Kristy May – an International Development student currently located in Ho Chi Minh City. Kristy works with The Dariu Foundation exploring the impacts of microfinance on the surrounding community. The problem Ho Chi Minh, the city that never sleeps, is home to eight million officially, but estimates of ten... [read more]

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Financing Megacities: Technology, Stakeholder Participation + Funding Hold The Key

August 15, 2011 by Roland Chalons-Browne
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We are living in a highly urban world; one in two people worldwide currently lives in a city. It is estimated that roughly 60 per cent of the world’s population will live in urban environments by 2030. This rapid urbanization is accelerating the rise of megacities, urban centers that are home to at least 10 million residents. With their better-than-average infrastructure and economic opportunities, most megacities are the financial centers of their countries and account for a major portion of their country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). [read more]

A Not So Suburban Suburbia: Possibilities for Our Urban Future

June 10, 2011 by Donovan Gillman
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More on retrofitting suburbia… " There are nearly seven billion people on the planet, and more than half of them live in urban areas. Close your eyes and try to picture that. Do you see the towering density of Tokyo or Mumbai? Well, you’re partly right. Megacities with populations topping 10 million are part of the picture, but our... [read more]

UN-Shanghai Expo Megacities Sustainability Study: My Role

August 10, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig
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Urban sustainability is the challenge of the century as more of the world's population becomes urbanized (50 percent in 2008, 60 percent by 2030), at an ever-faster rate. Global climate change has been caused in large part by the burning of fossil fuels to generate energy, materials and food for metro areas. Yet urban culture also... [read more]