Regenerating Urban Land: A Practitioner’s Guide to Leveraging Private Investment

Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world.

Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway: Capital, Operations, and Maintenance Financing

Urban transport systems are essential for economic development and improving citizens' quality of life.

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

Confronting the Urban Housing Crisis in the Global South: Adequate, Secure, and Affordable Housing" is a chapter of the World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City.

Connected Urban Growth: Public-Private Collaborations for Transforming Urban Mobility

New mobility services could improve the lives of all urban inhabitants.

Bus Rapid Transit in China: A Comparison of Design Features with International Systems

Reference Source: WRI

Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values: Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries

Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth.

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