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COVID-19 Pandemic and Sustainable Urban Transformation: Perspectives on City-Level Actions and a Framework for the Future

Cities were at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic due to the concentration of affected populations and economic activities that needed to be revived to support global recovery.

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Urban Flood Risk Handbook: Assessing Risk and Identifying Interventions

This Urban Flood Risk Handbook: Assessing Risk and Identifying Interventions is a roadmap for conducting an urban flood risk assessment in any city in the world.

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The Urban Nature Indexes

The IUCN Urban Alliance, a broad coalition of IUCN constituents concerned with the urban dimensions of nature conservation, has unveiled a new knowledge product for measuring t

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Calculating Indicators From Global Geospatial Data Sets for Benchmarking and Tracking Change in the Urban Environment

This technical note discusses methods for using these data in combination with locally meaningful jurisdictional boundaries to calculate local measurements of indicators on several themes—includi

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Open Spaces for All

Open spaces are essential resources for public health and the environment: they provide places for recreation, cultural enrichment, learning, exercise, and relaxation, as well

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Biodiversity in Cities - Technical Guide

In order to respond to the challenges and growing demand of counterparts, partners and populations to better integrate nature in cities, AFD Group has developed this technical

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She Rises: a Framework for Caring Cities

This document unpacks the elements of a city that places the economics and ethics of care at the centre.

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C4B 1st Deep-Dive Learning: Greening Cities - Summary Report

Cities4Biodiversity (C4B) participants convened in April 2022 to explore the first of a series of themes critical to the purpose of C4B – developing and supporting a network of

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Tactical Urbanism to Design Cities for People

It is estimated that around 600,000 motored vehicles enter the city of Asunción each day, adding a lot of pressure to the already dense traffic.

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The Urban Butterfly Effect

This is a policy brief with recommendations for national governments to accelerate urban efforts to help them achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2030 Action Targets.

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Building Back Stronger: Urban Resilience Through Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Rebuilding cities and towns after protracted conflict is a more common occurrence than many

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Gender and Sustainable Cities

Climate change is set to exacerbate existing inequalities across regions and negatively impact

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Guidance Note. Community Participation in Slum Upgrading

With its focus on community participation, this Note helps to promote participatory slum upgrading in their dialogue with the client and

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Primer on Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Urban areas are responsible for the majority of GHG emissions.

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Kyoto A Creative City : Leveraging Creativity for City Competitiveness and Inclusive Urban Transformation

This report builds on the findings from the Technical Deep Dive (TDD) ‘Creative Cities: Case o

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Cities, Culture, Creativity : Leveraging Culture and Creativity for Sustainable Urban Development and Inclusive Growth

Culture and creativity have untapped potential to deliver social, economic, and spatial bene

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Handbook for Gender-Inclusive Urban Planning and Design

Urban planning and design quite literally shape the environment around us — and that environme

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Integrating Climate Adaptation: a Toolkit for Urban Planners and Adaptation Practitioners

The toolkit

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Space: A Review of the Emerging Questions

Restrictions on the use of public space and social distancing have been key policy measures to reduce the transmission of SAR-CoV-2 and protect public health.

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

Within the project, we strive to develop and strengthen dialogue and coordination among differ

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