Urban Development Media Scan – 27 July 2017

USAID

  1. Urban Resilience Planning for Secondary African Cities: A Case Study of Mozambique

Global

  1. Cities set the pace on fighting poverty, climate change but who will pay? (7/25/2017)
    Source: Reuters
  2. These preparations can help cities ease the impacts of migration (7/24/2017)
    Source: Citiscope
  3. The Future of Urban Resilience (7/24/2017)
    Source: Rockefeller Foundation
  4. Three ways to ‘localize’ financing for sustainable urban development (7/24/2017)
    Source: Citiscope
  5. Why do cities become unaffordable? (7/22/2017)
    Source: Asia Times
  6. To achieve #Housing4All, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater (7/21/2017)
    Source: World Bank Blog
  7. UNESCO and World Bank Collaborate on Culture, Urban Development, and Resilience (7/20/2017)
    Source: The Financial
  8. Urban planning — linchpin for sustainable urban development? (7/19/2017)
    Source: Citiscope
  9. New Global Network Initiative Targets Problems in Cities (7/19/2017)
    Source: Yale
  10. How to solve the Global South’s urban housing crisis (7/14/2017)
    Source: Citiscope

Africa

  1. Robots are set to take Africa’s manufacturing jobs even before it has enough (7/26/2017)
    Source: Quartz
  2. Demolitions gather pace in the heart of the Ethiopian capital (7/25/2017)
    Source: Reuters
  3. Thirsty city: after months of water rationing Nairobi may run dry (7/25/2017)
    Source: Guardian
  4. Urban planners are irresponsibly designing risky mega-developments across Africa (7/24/2017)
    Source: Architect’s Newspaper
  5. ​Public transport: Are we getting it right? (7/24/2017)
    Source: Mail & Guardian
  6. Urban Wastewater for Food Security – Averting the Next Health Crisis in Africa (7/18/2017)
    Source: AllAfrica
  7. We joined the food revolution—and you can, too (7/13/2017)
    Source: World Bank Blog

Asia

  1. What happens when girls in one of the world’s largest slums start coding and building apps (7/25/2017)
    Source: Quartz
  2. Asia under water: How 137 million people’s lives are being put at risk (7/25/2017)
    Source: CNN
  3. The last days of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building (7/24/2017)
    Source: BBC
  4. Sacred Lakes Threatened by China’s Growing Capital (7/24/2017)
    Source: New York Times
  5. China bets on subways as cities expand (7/22/2017)
    Source: Straits Times
  6. Beijing aims to curb city’s use of coal by 2020 (7/19/2017)
    Source: Reuters
  7. Singapore offers drones, urban warfare training grounds, aid to help Philippines fight militants in Marawi (7/19/2017)
    Source: Straits Times
  8. Sponge cities: can China’s model go global? (7/13/2017)
    Source: Cities Today
  9. In urban China, hardly anyone uses cash anymore (7/17/2017)
    Source: Straits Times
  10. Lessons and challenges as Indian cities step up planning for heat waves (7/13/2017)
    Source: Citiscope

LAC

  1. Mexico City Is Killing Parking Spaces. Pay Attention, America (7/25/2017)
    Source: Wired
  2. 3 lessons from Brazil on how to deliver on the SDGs — sans national government (7/25/2917)
    Source: Citiscope
  3. Agencies, LAC Officials, Promote Culture and Resilience for Sustainable Cities and Tourism (7/18/2017)
    Source: SDG Knowledge Hub

Middle East

  1. Unleashing Tehran’s ‘water renaissance’ (7/26/2017)
    Source: Cities Today
  2. Outlook for Middle East’s Ramallah clouded by tensions, restrictions (7/25/2017)
    Source: Reuters
  3. Egypt to launch country’s first bicycle-sharing system (7/25/2017)
    Source: Egypt Independent
  4. Island v megacity: the Cairo islanders fighting violent state evictions (7/21/2017)
    Source: Guardian
  5. Connecting Palestinian cities for a more sustainable future (7/20/2017)
    Source: World Bank Blog

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