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Aerial view of the city of Barcelona, Spain

Three pandemic lessons to build better cities

September 08, 2021
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Laia Bonet
Sameh Wahba
Flooded street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

A green approach to beat the climate crisis in cities

August 26, 2021
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Joanna Mclean Masic
A group of Freetown residents pose with their seedlings.

#FreetownTheTreeTown campaign: Using digital tools to encourage tree cultivation in cities

July 20, 2021
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Tiguist Fisseha
Akiko Toya
Nuala Margaret Cowan
Larissa Duma
Word cloud includes words from the blog, such as "resilient" and "sustainable" and "data."

5 views: What makes a city 'smart'?

July 09, 2021
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Gunes Basat
Narae Choi
A cityscape of Mumbai

Slums, Sprawl, and Skyscrapers

July 29, 2021
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Somik Lall
Mathilde Lebrand
Hogeun Park
A father, mother and daughter stand in front of their home in Colombia

Can new technology solve the global housing crisis?

June 16, 2021
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Luis Triveno
Olivia Nielsen
Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

March 31, 2021
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Maitreyi Bordia Das
Victoria Stanley
A woman beneficiary in the village of Soavina in Madagascar.

Three reflections on gender in DRM

March 08, 2021
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Alvina Erman
Kayenat Kabir
Ward Disaster Management Committee in one of the sessions for developing Community Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan

Tanzanian communities unite to tackle the growing risk of floods

June 30, 2021
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Nyambiri Kimacha
Yohannes Yemane Kesete
View looking down at Utatsu Community in Minami Sanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture from Mishima Shrine in August 2011

A decade of lessons from Japan’s mega disaster

March 11, 2021
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Shoko Takemoto
Naho Shibuya
Keiko Sakoda
Aerial view of Lima, Peru

Cities are the hub of the global green recovery

September 03, 2020
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Jorge Muñoz Wells
Students line up to wash their hands before eating at Kanda Estate Primary School in Accra, Ghana

A new fund for better social, environmental and infrastructure outcomes

December 08, 2020
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Inga Afanasieva
Maitreyi Bordia Das
Sameh Wahba
Rocio lives with her 8 children in los Bañados de Asunción, Paraguay

COVID-19 has revealed that “inclusive” housing policies are still too exclusive

November 06, 2020
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Luis Triveno
Carina Lakovits
Heavy traffic in Beijing, China

Want to help reduce emissions? Reschedule our cities

September 29, 2020
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Carlo Ratti

Sustainable Communities

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A wind park near the village of Bulgarevo, Bulgaria. Photo: Boris Balabanov/World Bank

Bridging the gap between transport and energy to achieve sustainable mobility

June 11, 2021
Rush hour traffic in Beijing's Central Business District. Photo: Li Lou/World Bank

The 500-million-vehicle question: What will it take for China to decarbonize transport?

June 07, 2021
Children and local residents watch drone trials in the Lake Victoria region, Tanzania. Photo: Chris Morgan/World Bank

Improving transport and connectivity in Africa: Can drones be part of the solution?

May 28, 2021
A commuter uses his smartphone to request a ride. Photo: Aashim Tyagi, WRI India/Flickr

Data, technology, and partnerships are the three keys to sustainable transport

May 21, 2021
Geohazard

Road geohazard risk management: new tools and e-learning

April 27, 2021
Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

March 31, 2021
Female commuters on a bus in Mumbai, India. Photo: Van J/Flickr

Filling in knowledge gaps on gender equality in transportation

March 08, 2021
A woman beneficiary in the village of Soavina in Madagascar.

Three reflections on gender in disaster risk management

March 08, 2021
A young boy waits at a Bus Rapid Transit station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Photo: Hendri Lombard/World Bank

Connectivity for Human Capital: Are African public transport systems up to the task?

March 04, 2021
In September 2018, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake caused Indonesia's Palu IV Bridge to collapse. Photo: Dhody Wachyudi/Shutterstock

Central Sulawesi disaster: An opportunity to strengthen road and bridge resilience in Indonesia?

February 26, 2021

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Word cloud includes words from the blog, such as "resilient" and "sustainable" and "data."

5 views: What makes a city 'smart'?

July 09, 2021
A father, mother and daughter stand in front of their home in Colombia

Can new technology solve the global housing crisis?

June 16, 2021
A group of Freetown residents pose with their seedlings.

#FreetownTheTreeTown campaign: Using digital tools to encourage tree cultivation in cities

July 20, 2021
A cityscape of Mumbai

Slums, Sprawl, and Skyscrapers

July 29, 2021
Ward Disaster Management Committee in one of the sessions for developing Community Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan

Tanzanian communities unite to tackle the growing risk of floods

June 30, 2021
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