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

Sludge to Energy: An Environment-Energy-Economic Assessment of Methane Capture from Sludge in Xiangyang City, Hubei Province

Rail Plus Property Development in China: the Pilot Case of Shenzhen

China’s cities face significant challenges in financing the growth of urban transit infrastructure.

Global Architecture of Climate Finance

The climate finance architecture—the system of specialized, public funds that help countries implement climate mitigation and adaptation projects and programs—is crucial if the world is to meet the

Nigeria - Private Sector Participation in Solid Waste Management Activities in Ibadan

Transport Emissions & Social Cost Assessment: Methodology Guide

The Transport Emissions & Social Cost Assessment is a project under the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable and Livable Cities Program, funded by the Caterpillar Foundation.

Financing the Urban Transition: Policy Makers Summary

This Policymakers’ Summary focuses on the role of national governments in mobilising and directing urban finance, with the aim of supporting policymakers and practitioners to think systematically a

Governance of Inclusive Transit-Oriented Development in Brazil

Transit-oriented development (TOD)—a planning strategy focused on building compact, mixed-use neighborhoods with access to high-quality public transport and mobility options—is key to sustainable u

Transforming the urban space through transit-oriented development : the 3V approach

Imagine a city that is more competitive, with higher-quality neighborhoods, lower infrastructure costs, and lower C02 emissions per unit of activity.

Protecting and Strengthening the Land Tenure of Vulnerable Groups

A greener tomorrow: Water management in urban redevelopment: Dortmund, Germany

Dortmund has transformed from a major industrial city into the “green metropolis” of Germany’s Westphalia region.

ICLEI Resilient Cities Report 2016

Resilient Cities is the global forum on urban resilience and adaptation convened in Bonn, Germany.

Financing Landfill Gas Projects in Developing Countries

Sustainable Financing and Policy Models for Municipal Composting

CURB Tool: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability (Spanish)

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.