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Can Housing Be Affordable Without Being Efficient?

  • Buildings
  • housing
Minha Casa, Minha Vida affordable housing project in Brazil
  • Buildings
  • housing
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Equitable Planning in Ahmedabad: Beyond Eminent Domain

  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • world resources report
Ahmedabad uses a special process for acquiring land to make sure new developments receive city services.
  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • world resources report
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India's Boom Pushed Cities to Their Limits. Here's How Pune Coped.

  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • world resources report
Waste collection door-to-door by the members of the SWaCH cooperative in Pune, India. Photo Credit: Brodie Talbot
  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • world resources report
Bus in Quito.
  • Urban Mobility
  • data
  • Cities

Cities Are Taxing Ride-Hailing Services Like Uber and Lyft. Is This a Good Thing?

  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
Traffic congestion in Washington, DC.
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
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Traffic in Saigon. Flickr/Jonas Ginter
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
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Mumbai
  • Buildings
  • Cities
  • climate change
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  • Cities
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation
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Q&A: What Is the Future of Green Building?

  • Buildings
  • Cities
  • energy efficiency
Looking into Toronto. Unsplash/Sandra Schuh
  • Buildings
  • Cities
  • energy efficiency
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Informal Workers Make Cities Work For All: 3 Stories from Thailand, India and Colombia

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Cities
  • poverty
  • world resources report
Choral Mauladia, a street vendor and trade unionist in Ahmedabad. Photo: Getty Images Reportage.
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Cities
  • poverty
  • world resources report
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Mass Transit Is a Public Good. Everyone—Not Just Riders—Should Pay For It.

  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
Looking out onto the Delhi Metro tracks in Badarpur. Flickr/Axel Drainville
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
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Green Growth for the Commonwealth: Ready for Phase Three

  • Climate Resilience
  • Economics
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • transportation
Bicycle rickshaws in Mumbai, India
  • Climate Resilience
  • Economics
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • transportation
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The View from the Bus: Better Transportation Means Better Lives

  • public transit
  • transportation
Pablo Bautista and his mother, Brenda, tracing their bus route
  • public transit
  • transportation
Traffic in Bogotá
  • road safety
  • Health & Road Safety
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How Did Shenzhen, China Build World’s Largest Electric Bus Fleet?

  • public transit
  • transportation
Electric buses in China
  • public transit
  • transportation

Are We Ready for Autonomous Vehicles? The Uncertain Road Ahead

  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
self-driving car
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
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As Cities Grapple With Mobility Revolution, 10 Principles Emerge to Guide Them

  • Cities
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
Bikesharing is part of the paradigm shift in urban mobility.
  • Cities
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
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Photo Essay: How Climate Change Affects the Urban Poor in India and Indonesia

  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • climate change
Asian man standing by waterway
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • climate change
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Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
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  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
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  • water risk
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  • Ocean
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  • Cities
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