Cities on the Frontline: COVID-19 Lockdown Exit Strategies for A Resilient Bogotá
This session discussed Bogotá’s Covid‑19 exit strategies, highlighting difficult tradeoffs between protecting lives, livelihoods, and economic recovery.Events
Fighting Infectious Diseases: the Connection to Climate Change
Climate change drives infectious‑disease risks via habitat shifts, pollution, and viral evolution, requiring coordinated global health‑climate action.News & Blogs
Culture in the COVID-19 recovery: Good for your wallet, good for resilience, and good for you
COVID‑19 disrupted cultural sectors, threatening heritage sites and livelihoods, while highlighting culture’s role in resilience and recovery.News & Blogs
Cultivating nature, cooling cities: An urban future grown to last
Rapid urbanization in arid regions highlights how nature‑positive design and afforestation can cool cities, improve health, and boost resilience.News & Blogs
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Healthy Cities: Revisiting the Role of Cities in Promoting Health
The Healthy Cities Report provides a framework and recommendations to help policymakers advance healthier cities through targeted and integrated action.Knowledge Product
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COVID-19 Vaccination and Municipal Waste Management. Technical Brief
The report explains the unprecedented scale of COVID‑19 vaccination and outlines challenges to sustaining equitable, effective global immunization.Knowledge Product
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Municipal Finance
This report assesses the impact of the pandemic on local governments’ financial situations through cross-country analysis and comparison.Knowledge Product
Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment
Biodiversity strongly influences human health, and understanding causal pathways can guide nature‑based public health solutions and policy integration.Knowledge Product
Women, Business and the Law 2021
The report measures legal barriers to women’s economic opportunity worldwide, presenting eight indicators and encouraging reforms.Knowledge Product
Influence of COVID-19 on China’s Urban Planning and Design Regulations
This note explains how the pandemic is reshaping regulations in China and affecting urban planning and city management.Knowledge Product
Health-Oriented Micro-Generation in Shanghai
Integrating health considerations into planning can reduce disease risks at population scale by improving physical and mental health.Knowledge Product
Primer for Cool Cities: Reducing Excessive Urban Heat – With a Focus on Passive Measures
The primer outlines urban cooling solutions and offers practical guidance to help cities reduce heat impacts and protect residents.Knowledge Product
COVID-19’s Impact on the Waste Sector
Cities face worsening waste challenges as COVID‑19 impacts services and global municipal waste volumes rise sharply, especially in low‑income countries.Knowledge Product
COVID-19: Safeguarding lives and livelihoods - A checklist guide for local governments
The guide offers a framework to help local governments in developing countries plan and adapt to COVID‑19 impacts.Knowledge Product
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.Knowledge Product
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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.Knowledge Product
Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers : An Initial Assessment
The report examines sanitation workers’ vulnerabilities and highlights challenges, good practices, and actions needed to protect their dignity and safety.Knowledge Product
