Executive Director Inger Andersen affirms that UNEP and UN-Habitat are joining forces to build greener, more resilient, and ...

Nikki Luke, Ph.D., is an urban geographer who studies energy and labor politics. Her research investigates the effects of urban energy governance on workers and communities. She studies how ...

VIJAYAWADA: In a major political triumph, the NDA has secured key mayoral and municipal chairperson posts in the State, further tightening its hold over urban governance. In Visakhapatnam ...

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 ...

But attention should also be given to governance and this is what a recent report published by UN-ESCAP titled “Urban transformation in Asia and the Pacific, from growth to resilience”, does.

Over the past decade, India’s urban agenda has gained unprecedented support: a 932% increase in the ministry of housing and urban affairs’ budget since 2009-10, 8.7 million houses built under ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mineral Resources’ board has been plunged into turmoil with the abrupt departure of two independent directors charged with lifting the battling company’s governance standards after a series of ...

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 ...

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 ...