
Accelerating Urban Inclusion for a Just Recovery
This report draws global attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened stark inequalities in cities around the world. This report makes the urgent case for greater urban inclusion, ...
Cities are the engine of the global economy and home to a growing majority of the world’s population. In the face of increasing global challenges, from inequality to climate change, how can cities advance and inform more inclusive and sustainable models of urban development?
This report draws global attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened stark inequalities in cities around the world. This report makes the urgent case for greater urban inclusion, ...
This report provides cities with an actionable strategy to enable cities take a systems approach to climate resilience strategies. A systems approach leverages linkages across multiple in...
This report was prepared in collaboration with PwC and identifies how cities can rethink traditional revenues and financing mechanisms to enable cities to build back better and provide cl...
This report makes a case for the need for systematic digitalization in cities, the need to pursue an outcomes-based planning, design and implementation of digitalization projects, the str...
Cities cover 3% of the earth’s land surface yet they create more than 70% of all carbon emissions. To keep global temperature increases to 1.5°C or below, cities have to achieve net-zero....
About 90% of cities around the world do not provide affordable housing or of adequate quality. The cost of housing, as well as location, prohibits people from meeting other basic living c...
The world is urbanizing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming life at an unprecedented rate. Cities must be “agile” – able to move quickly and easily – to enable their citi...
The industrial internet represents one of the most promising and transformative applications of the Internet of Things (IoT).
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Urban Development and Services Initiative has released its new whitepaper on the Circular Economy in Cities: evolving the model for a sustainable urba...
The need for cities to fully harness the potential of data constantly flowing through them has never been more urgent. Data Driven Cities: 20 Stories of Innovation, highlights examples fr...
The World Economic Forum has released a report taking a deep dive on migration and cities, exploring the types, causes and patterns of migration, the most affected corridors and cities, t...
As this World Economic Forum report emphasizes, the future of cities largely depends on the way urbanization is managed and public-private collaboration is leveraged to implement the New ...
The report highlights the reforms required at state and local levels to implement smart cities in India. It recommends institutional, business-environment and sector-specific reforms to e...
The World Economic Forum has released a new report, Inspiring Future Cities & Urban Services
世界经济论坛都市未来理事会发布的《十大城市创新》报告为城市治理者提供了新颖的解决思路。
With 54% of the Chinese population living in cities, China has six megacities of more than 10 million inhabitants and 103 cities of more than one million inhabitants. This presents China ...
Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, was selected as the inaugural Champion City of the World Economic Forum’s Future of Urban Development Initiative in January 2012. As the inaugural cit...
The growth of cities and unprecedented rural-to-urban migration throughout Asia, Latin America and parts of Africa are frequently cited as defining global trends of the 21st century. Whil...
More people than ever before are living in slums or other informal settlements. This isn't just a global scale problem, though — it's also a global scale opportunity.
More than half of the global population — 4.4 billion — live in cities. But by 2050, that figure is expected to nearly double.
Mayors from Latin America, Africa and Asia will be welcoming more than 90% of the new urban inhabitants in the next decade. Governing these ballooning cities is a continuing challenge, no...
This report provides a guide for city leaders considering the development of digital twin cities and insights for entrepreneurs and investors looking to shape the next generation of appli...
距离2024年夏季奥运会和残奥会还有一年时间,巴黎已经宣布将重新开放塞纳河供游泳比赛使用,并在赛后允许公众游泳,这意味着长达一个世纪的游泳禁令的结束。这项禁令的颁布主要是为了防止人们在河中接触到雨水、污水和化学品污染。