How to Integrate Violence Against Women Prevention, Response in Urban Development
A quick reference for urban planners to address violence against women and girls in their efforts to ensure safe cities and neighborhoods.
How Developing Cities Can Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
Developing countries are well placed to leapfrog directly to water-sensitive cities, rather than follow the organic evolution of urban water infrastructure in developed countries.
How Asia’s Cities Can Become More Livable After the Pandemic
Asia’s cities must become greener, more inclusive, more competitive, and more resilient to build forward better and be better places to live.
How Affordable are the Most Livable Cities in Asia and the Pacific?
Tokyo, Seoul or Singapore illustrate how inclusive urban development, despite high cost of living, can make a city livable.
High-Speed Rail Investment: A Butterfly Effect for Urban Chaos
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to investing in high-speed rail for Asian cities.
Hard Data and Hard Choices: Disaster Risk Financing in an Asian City
Floods in India and Pakistan, typhoons in the Philippines and the recent earthquake in Nepal have reminded city leaders of the urgent need to safeguard the lives of their people, protect costly infrastructure, and ensure services and businesses can continue after disaster strikes.
Green Cities: Changing the Culture of Waste
Asia’s drive to urbanize is taking an increasing toll on the environment with growing mountains of solid waste as city dwellers consume and discard resources at an ever increasing rate. If “green” cities are to be the answer to these environmental stresses then they will need to develop much more effective programs to reduce, reuse, recycle and recover waste.
Green Cities are Not Just for the Elite
Environmentally friendly urban development should benefit all citizens.
Getting Ready for the Post-2015 SDGs: Join the E-Dialogue
The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are expected to bring a stronger focus on longer-term durability of development gains as opposed to the current approach which sees decision-making targeted at the shorter term. At present, businesses main focus is annual balance sheets; for development organizations it is annual results reporting; and for democracies there's cyclical elections.
Getting It Right on Railways
Lining up rights-of-way for megaprojects, such as railways and highways, in crowded places is challenging but it can be done with an imaginative and respectful plan.