City2City
In 2018, Leuven 2030, with the help of urban-planning agency BUUR and a large...
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10/16/20
In our new survey of 47 cities, we find that advice to still ring true. City...
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10/15/20
10/15/20

Regions and cities will be at the core of the €1.8 trillion #NextGenerationEU plan for a green, digital and resilient recovery. Its success will depend on each of the one million local administrators in Europe. This is their moment, their opportunity, and their responsibility.

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9 Oct 2024

The city’s resilience strategy highlighted water resilience and security as a priority. With the completion of the Community Infrastructure Program in 2018, the City is in better shape to respond and recover. The program ensures that even when pipes are broken, cell service is out, and transportation is blocked, most Wellingtonians will still be able to access water for a period until supply lines can be re-established. 

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Local governments are currently facing multiple challenges in reducing inequality, especially gender inequality. This webinar will focus on accelerating progress in promoting gender equality and empowering women locally and leave no one behind. The webinar will be hosted in English.

Event Date:
15/10/2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
Korea Standard Time (KST)​
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The event will discuss the implications of the climate crisis on water utilities in cities around the world and how, drawing on the experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises, utilities can strengthen their preparedness and adapt to the climate crisis using a WOPs approach. The event will also provide technical resources and offer opportunities for engaging with the GWOPA network, city and utility leaders and development partners, especially in the upcoming WOPs program supported by the European Commission.

Event Date:
12/10/2024 - 12:00 to 13:30
UTC+2
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This year’s event becomes Smart City Live, a forum to keep our community connected, despite the current restrictions due to COVID-19. A leadership program that gathers high-level professionals from cities and companies all around the world.

Event Date:
17/11/2024 (All day) to 18/11/2024 (All day)
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World Cities Day 2024 is the seventh global celebration since the day was launched on 31 October 2014 in Shanghai, China. Under overarching theme of Better City, Better Life, the aim of the day is to focus the international community’s attention on urbanisation as a central issue for development and to encourage cooperation among countries in meeting opportunities and addressing urban challenges towards sustainable development.

Event Date:
31/10/2024 (All day)
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Please join us for the 28th Session of Cities on the Frontline, jointly organized by Global Resilient Cities Network & the World Bank, which will focus on “Risk and Crisis Communication”. We will be joined by Olivia Jensen, Lead Scientist, Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, National University of Singapore and Nadine Burbar, Deputy Chief Resilience Officer, Head of Local Economic Development, Ramallah Municipality, Palestine.

 

Event Date:
08/10/2024 - 09:00
Eastern Standard Time (EST)
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2 Oct 2024

As a nature-based solution, urban forests – which include all the trees in an urban area, from street trees to patches of natural and planted forest, as well as the vegetation and soil beneath them – can facilitate improved urban stormwater management and reduce the hazards posed by flooding while simultaneously providing other environmental and cultural co-benefits.

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African Centre for Cities and partners present the REFRAME platform to promote informed debate and proposition on how best we can programmatically advance sustainable and inclusive African cities. This propositional conversation series seeks to set an agenda and provide a set of coordinates for multilateral partners, knowledge institutions, social movements, governments, networks and concerned business to gravitate around. The intention is to equip all stakeholders to influence policy formulation processes at a pan-African scale, between Africa and Europe, US and Asia, at national and local levels. It seeks to make plain the urban conditions it will take to achieve the lofty and urgent goals of Agenda 2063, the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement.

Event Date:
21/10/2024 - 14:00 to 16:00
Central Africa Time (CAT)
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This session hosted by ICLEI and the city of Turku will showcase practical examples of how cities from different world regions have put circularity into practice through cross-sectoral collaboration (e.g. city-business partnerships, public participation, city-research cooperation).

Event Date:
28/09/2024 - 14:00
Central European Standard Time (CEST)
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25 Sep 2024

The new ranking comes amid growing debate over the future of urban design for a post-COVID era.

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The Forum of Mayors will bring together city leaders from Europe, North America, Central Asia and the Caucasus to address the key challenges of our time. The 2024 Forum will focus on “City action for a resilient future: Strengthening local government preparedness and response to emergencies and the impact of disasters and climate change”.

Event Date:
06/10/2024 - 09:00 to 17:00
Central European Standard Time (CEST)
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This virtual event consists of an hour and a half discussion on the actions of local and regional governments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It will feature high-level representatives who will discuss ways they are working to meet the 2030 Agenda while managing challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Event Date:
24/09/2024 - 09:00 to 10:30
Eastern Standard Time (EST)
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15 Sep 2024

15 September 2024 - UNDP Bolivia is working to deliver an innovative mobility strategy that rethinks the way public space is shared between pedestrians, motorised and non-motorised vehicles. 

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7 Sep 2024

7 September 2024 - In the great urban debate between the co-owner of the Stand Up NY comedy club on New York City's Upper West Side and its greatest stand-up act, the comedian wins the debate hands down. Jerry Seinfeld makes the point: he won't ever leave NYC. And because he won't, we won't.

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8/31/20

31 August 2024 - This webinar on Wednesday, August 5 at 9am ET / 2pm BST / 3pm CEST / 8pm ICT focused on a policy brief commissioned by FELICITY-GIZ, and developed in collaboration with the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance, that focuses specifically on enhancing the role that National Development Banks (NDBs) play in supporting the acceleration of climate-smart urban infrastructure investment.

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31 August 2024 - This paper focuses specifically on enhancing the role that...
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8/31/20
This publication explains how each of the 17 SDGs relates to the daily work of...
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1/31/19
This study guides through the contemporary discourse, outlines the build-up of...
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11/30/18
This paper describes enabling factors in the areas of policy frameworks,...
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10/31/18
This first ever global survey finds that applying three types of new mobility...
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11/30/17
This toolkit is a practical reference for local governments to frame and...
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12/31/15