Riders wait for an approaching Paris Metro train. In Paris, 48% of the city's transit budget is covered by the Versement Mobilité: a tax on employers in close proximity to transit networks with more ...
2024 was tumultuous. Cities saw record-breaking temperatures, a sharp uptick in climate-related disasters, violent conflict in too many places, and contentious elections that shifted local, national ...
In October 2024, a high-altitude isolated depression struck Valencia, Spain, bringing severe weather, torrential rainfall and flash floods. Photo: danr13/iStock 2024 has been a tumultuous year: More ...
Held in Rio de Janeiro, the U20 summit gathered over 80 mayors and 100 city delegations from G20 nations to explore solutions and craft recommendations for national leaders. Photo: Sébastien ...
Residents and tourists cool off at Cape Town’s Saunders’ Rock Beach. The difference in thermal comfort between neighborhoods in Cape Town – due to differences in tree cover, building materials, land ...
Livability is key to the quality of city life as we look to the future. We don’t have to look far into that future to see how this plays out on the streets. On Sunday, December 15, 1974, a group of ...
A street in Mumbai, India. The city is the first in India to launch a climate budget. Photo: Victor Jiang/Shutterstock Financial flow towards climate adaptation in India shows that the majority of ...
Stellantis promised to create new jobs and invest millions in the local community through the expansion of an auto manufacturing plant on Detroit’s Mack Avenue. Instead, the expansion resulted in poor ...
Over the past two decades, Rwanda – the land of a thousand hills – has made remarkable strides: poverty has significantly declined and quality of life has improved. The service, industrial and ...
Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of ...
Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of ...
The impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic are still being understood, but it does seem clear that this crisis will make a mark on cities, physically and socially, that will echo for generations. How ...