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    September 6, 2018

    Can Housing Be Affordable Without Being Efficient?

    • Buildings
    • housing
    Minha Casa, Minha Vida affordable housing project in Brazil
    • Buildings
    • housing
    Asia
    Insights
    August 30, 2018

    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
    Asia
    Insights
    August 16, 2018

    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
    Cities
    Asia Latin America
    Insights
    August 9, 2018

    With Transportation Data, These Cities Became More Sustainable and Socially Inclusive

    • Urban Mobility
    • data
    • Cities
    Bus in Quito.
    • Urban Mobility
    • data
    • Cities
    Cities
    Latin America North America
    Insights
    August 8, 2018

    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
    Cities
    Insights
    July 31, 2018

    If Your Car Is Stuck in Traffic, It's Not Uber and Lyft's Fault

    • Urban Mobility
    • Cities
    Traffic in Saigon. Flickr/Jonas Ginter
    • Urban Mobility
    • Cities
    Cities
    Insights
    July 26, 2018

    Amid Climate Uncertainty, Zero-Carbon Buildings Offer a Guiding North Star

    • Buildings
    • Cities
    • climate change
    Mumbai
    • Buildings
    • Cities
    • climate change
    Latin America
    Insights
    June 13, 2018

    What if Citizens Set City Budgets? An Experiment That Captivated the World—Participatory Budgeting—Might Be Abandoned in its Birthplace

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • Cities
    • environmental democracy
    • public participation
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • Cities
    • environmental democracy
    • public participation
    Insights
    June 4, 2018

    Q&A: What Is the Future of Green Building?

    • Buildings
    • Cities
    • energy efficiency
    Looking into Toronto. Unsplash/Sandra Schuh
    • Buildings
    • Cities
    • energy efficiency
    Cities
    Asia
    Insights
    May 29, 2018

    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
    Cities
    Asia
    Insights
    May 7, 2018

    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
    Business
    Asia
    Insights
    April 18, 2018

    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
    Cities
    Insights
    April 16, 2018

    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
    Cities
    Latin America
    Insights
    April 5, 2018

    “Life Is Sacred”: The Surprising Link Between Reducing Homicide and Traffic Fatalities in Bogotá

    • road safety
    • Health & Road Safety
    Traffic in Bogotá
    • road safety
    • Health & Road Safety
    Cities
    Asia
    Insights
    April 4, 2018

    How Did Shenzhen, China Build World’s Largest Electric Bus Fleet?

    • public transit
    • transportation
    Electric buses in China
    • public transit
    • transportation
    Cities
    North America
    Insights
    March 6, 2018

    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
    Cities
    Insights
    February 14, 2018

    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
    Cities
    Asia
    Insights
    January 31, 2018

    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
    Insights
    January 16, 2018

    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
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    • climate change
    • restoration
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    • fossil fuels
    • pollution
    • UNFCCC
    • U.S. policy
    • water risk
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