Urban Development Media Scan – 14 December 2017

USAID

  1. USAID Rejoins Cities Alliance
  2. Millennium Challenge Corporation Annual Program Statement: Urban Growth Analysis and Urban Management Partnership Opportunity

Global

  1. Why Hundreds of Completely New Cities Are Being Built Around The World (12/12/17)
    Source: Forbes
  2. Developing countries will get sick before they get rich (12/5/17)
    Source: Quartz
  3. How kid-friendly urban design makes cities better for all (12/12/17)
    Source: Curbed
  4. Cities have the power to lead climate change (12/13/17)
    Source: Politico

Africa

  1. African cities -time for urgent reform (12/11/17)
    Source: IRIN News
  2. ‘Addis has run out of space’: Ethiopia’s radial redesign (12/4/17)
    Source: The Guardian
  3. Nairobi: From swamp to one of Africa’s top cities (12/12/17)
    Source: Daily Nation
  4. African ‘smart cities’: A high-tech solution to overpopulated megacities? (12/12/17)
    Source: CNN

Asia

  1. Cities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Story of Urban Growth and Decline (11/29/17)
    Source: The World Bank
  2. In Jakarta, flood-hit slum residents aim for a higher, drier future (12/12/17)
    Source: Zilient.org
  3. China moves to regulate ‘specialty towns’ amid debt fears (12/5/17)
    Source: Place
  4. How the Philippines is using smart cards to transform access to mobility (12/11/17)
    Source: Cities Today
  5. Post-crisis urban planning: Lessons from Southeast Asia (12/7/17)
    Source: Eco-Business
  6. As trees fall to development in Islamabad, protesters fight back (12/11/17)
    Source: Reuters

Middle East

  1. Jordan’s plan of shiny city in the desert met by skepticism (12/8/17)
    Source: AP, Washington Post
  2. After Fall of ISIS, Iraq’s Second-Largest City Picks Up the Pieces (12/10/17)
    Source: New York Times

LAC

  1. Peru’s ruins feel the squeeze of urbanization (11/30/17)
    Source: AP, The Seattle Times
  2. Costa Rica drives for a new green goal: electric transport (11/30/17)
    Source: Place

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