Leadership & Management

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Toronto’s greenhouse gas emissions have dropped 15% from 1990 levels and per capita emissions have fallen by 26%. Meanwhile, the city has demonstrated that greenhouse gas emissions can shrink while a city grows.[read more]

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The "debate" could be more fruitful if everyone were just more honest and recognized not only the messiness of the real world, but stopped trying to fit one solution onto everyone else. Suburbia is not the answer. But neither is the "city."[read more]

infrastructure investment

Area residents agree that public infrastructure is deteriorating in southeast Michigan, but differ sharply on how to address the issue, according to a survey conducted in 2012.[read more]

Cairo's transport challenges

In large part, the city’s transport challenges are of its own making. In Cairo, 13 percent of the city’s transit is by private car, and cars are everywhere. They are either massively circulating, or parking on the streets.[read more]

inclusivity in urban renewal

Today Medellin is a bustling, cosmopolitan city with a good transport system that is clean, efficient and integrated. The city’s public spaces are well-used, accessible and contribute to uplifting surrounding areas.[read more]

Cincinnati's lost history

Its subway lines were long ago removed, its storefronts boarded up, sealed or displaced. However, this Cincinnati neighborhood was, at the beginning of the 20th century, an epicenter for a radical form of Community Organizing.[read more]

urban research

Institutions are forever trying to build toolkits to bolster resilience, establish sustainability, or ensure economic development. But development interventions, such as technology and business incubators are often formulaic.[read more]

guerrilla garden

In every bio-region one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists, so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature.[read more]

what's the value?

One of the problems with policy responses to crises is that they're designed to address yesterday's problems rather than anticipate tomorrow's. By the time initiatives are drawn up the situation has changed.[read more]

community design

Too often community projects favor one of these approaches over the other: the design team who drops in for a week with the solution, or the community workshop that recycles the same, old idea for its downtown’s redevelopment.[read more]

The Greenway urban park, Boston

One of the biggest impacts the transportation sector can have in combating climate change is in cutting fossil-fuel subsidies, which would put economic pressure on cities to switch to more fuel-efficient modes of transport.[read more]

healthy cities

The rural poor streaming into our cities today have a greater risk for the so-called diseases of poverty, including infections and malnutrition directly attributable to poor urban design in the form of housing and sanitation.[read more]