Its coastal location, combined with rapid and often unplanned urban expansion, aging infrastructure, poor drainage systems, and weak environmental governance, has made the city highly susceptible ...

In Pakistan, urban governance is characterised by fragmented institutional frameworks, weak disaster response mechanisms and a lack of inclusive planning. The air quality crisis in Punjab exhibits ...

Cities require a transformation that empowers local governments to lead urban development. We must adopt three pathways: planning and design, decentralized participatory governance and ...

A new declaration emphasizing people-centered urban governance was released Thursday at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Beijing Forum on Swift Response to Public Complaints. The "Beijing ...

Urban planning in Bangladesh remains a technocratic ritual detached from political realities. Without legitimate governance coming first, plans will not work ...

In this context, "city brains" represent an emerging type of generative AI currently employed in urban governance and public policy in a growing number of cities. City brains are large-scale AIs ...

A view of Shanghai's Pudong New Area. [Photo by Wang Gang/For China Daily] Shanghai's recent efforts in urban governance have marked a significant step toward modernizing China's city management ...