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Why Every City Can Benefit From a ‘15-Minute City’ Vision

This blog post touts the benefits of cities adopting a “15-minute city” vision, where they pursue policies that aim to make it easier for residents to access most of their daily needs within a short walking or cycling distance. It’s written primarily for regional planners who may be considering implementing… Read More

How to Implement Transit-Oriented Development

This guide is intended primarily for planners and decision makers as they plan out urban development that maximizes proximity of housing, jobs, services, and amenities to public transit hubs. Car-dependence has a variety of negative health, safety, climate, and equity impacts. With this guide, planners can help design effective, transit-oriented… Read More

Integrating Climate Adaptation: A Toolkit for Urban Planners and Adaptation Practitioners

Climate change and its effects have become increasingly relevant challenges to global urban environments. This resource provides a good roadmap of the challenges that climate change poses to cities, as well as potential mitigations. Readers such as development banks, planners and decision makers can gain greater insight on the relationship… Read More