Knowledge Products
The GPSC hosts a digital library featuring practical tools, reports, and case studies. Explore curated resources across thematic areas, filtering by topic or region to find the insights required to advance urban sustainability.
Featured Resources
A decade of lessons from the GEF-6 Sustainable Cities Program and its impact on future urban development.
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Climate Change Infrastructure Project Screening Framework (for Mitigation and Adaptation)
This tool helps catalyzing the next generation of investments in cities for climate-smart, greener, more resilient, and inclusive urbanization.Tool
Knowledge Resources
Explore the GPSC’s constantly growing library of knowledge resources, curated from cities across the world.
PlanningX
The project designed a bicycle network for Asunción, promoting safe, inclusive mobility through public, private and community sector workshops.
Urban Land and Housing Market Assessment: A Toolkit
The toolkit guides city practitioners in diagnosing housing and land market constraints to prioritise practical, supply‑focused policy interventions.
Melaka: Pathway to Urban Sustainability
Melaka’s sustainability diagnostic assessed six dimensions to guide the State Structure Plan with data‑driven recommendations.
Chongqing 2035: Spatial and Economic Transformation for a Global City
The Chongqing 2035 Report outlines economic, regional, innovation, and green growth strategies, supported by GPSC modeling future urban expansion scenarios.
Catalyzing Solutions for Sustainable Cities
The document explains how SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda guide cities toward inclusive, resilient and sustainable development.
Technology Pathways for Creating Smarter, More Prosperous and Greener Cities
The report synthesizes North American city studies, sharing best practices for deep carbon cuts using Siemens’ CyPT tool.
This paper reviews global water‑security threats, links them to conflict and migration, and outlines approaches for reducing water‑related risks.
The guidebook maps actors’ resources, priorities, and values to improve restoration governance, helping to improve collaboration and avoid conflict.
Urban transitions insights from industrial legacy cities
The briefing outlines challenges for industrial‑legacy cities, sharing transition pathways across infrastructure, mobility, energy, and society.
Urban Sustainability Framework
The Urban Sustainability Framework guides cities in integrated planning, diagnostics, financing and governance to achieve resilient, low‑carbon development.
