Strengthening community resilience in South Asia

While disasters such as earthquakes or floods affect everyone, their impacts are unevenly felt by different population groups.

Keiko Sakoda, Bandita Sijapati |
Disaster Risk Management, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Social Sustainability and Inclusion, Urban Development

A year of building sustainable communities in 12 stories

[[tweetable]]What are some of the key issues that will shape global development in 2017?[[/tweetable]] About this series More blog posts ​From addressing the forced displacement crisis to helping…

Andy Shuai Liu |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Gender, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

The “human scale” in public urban areas

Slideshow: Reimagining a park, a river, and other public spaces in Seoul (Photos by Judy Zheng Jia / World Bank) [[tweetable]]"If you lose the human scale, the city becomes an ugly place,…

Judy Zheng Jia, Jon Kher Kaw, Annie Gapihan, Sangmoo Kim, Marisa Garcia Lozano, Rosanna Nitti |
Environment, Gender, Governance, Education, Health

Singapore: The Pelé of urban design

Photo: Nicolas Lannuzel/Flickr Who is the best soccer player of all time? A Google search will offer this name: Edson Arantes do Nascimento, popularly known as Pelé. Kicking off in 1958 as a 17…

Abhas Jha |
Urban Development, Competitiveness, Disaster Risk Management, Digital Development, Governance