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

Planning

The Making of Sustainable Cities: GEF-6 Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot (SC-IAP) – Insights and Lessons

A decade of lessons from the GEF-6 Sustainable Cities Program and its impact on future urban development.

Report

Climate

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.

Global Responses to COVID-19 in Slums

Slums face high contagion risks; the document reviews global city and country responses to address these vulnerabilities effectively.

COVID-19 and Slums

Slum residents face heightened health and economic risks due to overcrowding, poor services, informality, and limited resilience to shocks.

Why can resilient housing change the world?

This brochure provides worldwide data about the necessity of resilient housing.

Best practices and lessons learned: Integrated planning of Asuncion's Metropolitan Area

The project builds coordination among institutions and stakeholders to establish an integrated urban planning platform for Asunción’s metropolitan area.

Best Practices and Lessons Learned on the Pathways to Sustainability: Co-design of a bicycle network for the Asuncion´s Metropolitan Area

The project designed a bicycle network for Asunción, promoting safe, inclusive mobility through public, private and community sector workshops.

Gender Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID‑19 impacts men and women differently; effective policy requires integrating gender analysis to leverage women’s roles in crisis response.

The Hidden Wealth of Cities: Creating, Financing, and Managing Public Spaces

The book shows how cities can unlock public spaces’ hidden value through strategic planning, financing, and asset‑based management.

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.

Green Infrastructure Design for Transport Projects: A Road Map to Protecting Asia's Wildlife Biodiversity

The report examines transport impacts on Asian wildlife and outlines green infrastructure measures to reduce biodiversity loss from expanding networks.

Analyzing the Spatial Patterns of the Elderly's Daily Activities

Traditional planning overlooks diverse needs in ageing cities, requiring data‑driven spatial strategies to support health, accessibility and active aging.