Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development

This study explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries.

Benefits of Climate Action: Piloting Global Approach to Measurement

This pilot research aims to enable cities to measure the wider benefits of climate action, empowering them to make a much stronger case for a much greater scale of action.

Methodology Note - Participatory Violence Mapping in Informal Urban Settlements

Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage

Public Procurement for a Circular Economy

This guidance sets out the policy framework, strategic thinking and planning recommended before embarking on a public procurement process, engaging the market and considering of the various steps o

Creating a world class culture of ecomobility: the case of Kaohsiung City

This case study showcases that how cities through concerted efforts can make a shift toward an ecomobile culture within their jurisdiction.  Kaohsiung is committed to developing a world class

Powering Cities in the Global South: How Energy Access for All Benefits the Economy and the Environment

Millions of residents in some of the fastest growing cities in the world don’t have access to clean, reliable energy, and the challenge of reaching them is not getting easier.

Confronting the Urban Housing Crisis in the Global South: Adequate, Secure, and Affordable Housing

This working paper on urban housing is the latest installment of WRI’s flagship World Resources Report (WRR), “Towards a More Equal City.” The report examines if more equitable access to core urban

Kitakyushu Model Subsector: Interplay between Solid Waste and Urban Flood Risk

CURB Tool: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability (English)

CURB: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability was developed by a partnership between the World Bank, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, AECOM Consulting and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Land degradation and cities: The essential role of local and regional governments

Global concern for the challenges posed by land degradation has been affirmed by target 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is aimed at halting and reversing land degradation.

Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services

Infrastructure interdependencies + Climate Risks Report

The C40 Infrastructure Interdependencies + Climate Risks Report summarizes the efforts of a sample of city governments and other public agencies around the world to understand the cascading impacts

GPSC Compendium: Achieving Affordable Housing for All

GPSC Compendium: Integrated Planning for Sustainable Urban Form

Fast-growing cities face challenges of populations to shelter, huge infrastructure needs to finance, a changing climate to adapt to, and the imperative to thrive in an evolving global economy.

GPSC Compendium: Strategy and Innovation for Bus Reforms in Developing Countries

In developing countries, buses are the backbone of public transit, and the poor depend on them to access employment and other urban services.

GPSC Compendium: Data-informed Urban Planning

Urban planning is a powerful tool that can be harnessed to meet an area's economic, social, cultural and environmental needs and to make visions fro that area a reality.

GPSC Compendium: Small-scale Municipal PPP

Small-scale public-private partnerships (PPPs) offer a number of benefits, especially where projects are developed by municipalities: they are close to those who need services most, respond to loca

Future of the Funds: Exploring the Architecture of Multilateral Climate Finance

In recognition of the importance of public finance, the global community has established several “climate funds.” These funds are designed to disburse funding to developing countries to help meet t

Nature-based solutions for sustainable urban development

Planting trees to improve urban air quality, converting abandoned industrial sites into urban parks, greening roofs to reduce buildings’ energy use, and restoring degraded wetlands to prevent flood