Handbook on Urban Infrastructure Finance
As a part of the Financing Urban Infrastructure Initiative launched in 2015 the New Cities Foundation has just published a Handbook on Urban Infrastructure Finance, a tool to help cities … Continue reading
Climate Injustice and Cities
Originally posted on UGEC Viewpoints:
Peter Marcotullio Hunter College – City University of New York, USA Climate injustice refers to the uneven contribution to and effects of climate change. It…
The world’s two new middles
Growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case: This paper discusses the emergence of two new middles since the Cold War, namely middle-income countries and people living above … Continue reading
Plastic and the city
The burden of single-use plastic bags on urban infrastructure has been a focus of the environmentalist movements and urbanist thought in the 21st century. Single-use plastic bags, however, are not … Continue reading
Measuring Women’s Empowerment: lessons to better understand domestic violence
This paper aims at shedding light on the relationship between women’s empowerment and domestic violence. For this, we explore different ways to measure women’s empowerment and domestic violence, and analyze … Continue reading
Responsible open data: an oxymoron? Discuss!
Originally posted on Wait… What?:
At our April 5th Salon in Washington, DC we had the opportunity to take a closer look at open data and privacy and discuss the…
The difference between observing and measuring the City
Originally posted on citiesaregoodforyou:
One way to divide up the sheep and goats of the Urbanist community is to divide them up between those who learnt the city by observation,…
Governing the ungovernable: spatial policy, markets and volume house-building in a growth region
The global rhetoric surrounding the role of private markets in the provision of new housing masks a more complex reality in which public policy and private developers are deeply enmeshed, … Continue reading
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