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Lessons from the C40 Mayors Summit: Scaling up solutions for resilient,...
Cape Town, South Africa is one of a growing movement of C40 Cities implementing transport demand management (TDM) strategies that call for increased biking and walking. Photo by Warren Rohner/Flickr....
View ArticleVideo: Edgar Pieterse on Housing and the Democracy Deficit in African Cities
Edgar Pieterse, an urban scholar and founding director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, says there are two major challenges facing African cities today. First, the...
View ArticleJohannesburg Fights Inequality with Transit-Oriented Development
While most cities around the world struggle with inequality, in Johannesburg, South Africa, the challenge is compounded by the legacy of apartheid. In the apartheid era, black populations were...
View ArticlePeople Move to Cities for Better Jobs and Opportunities. Impossible Commutes...
Emmanuel leaves his home at 5 a.m. every morning with his two daughters. They take a mini-bus, or “tro-tro,” from their house in Awoshie, a residential neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, to the central...
View ArticleTransport and Inequality: Why Disparities in Access Matter in Cities
They marched for human rights, for health care and education, but they came for the metro system, burning and damaging more than 86 stations across the city. Massive protests in Santiago last October...
View ArticleFinancing Urban Transformation: Don’t Leave It Up to Cities Alone
To achieve more equitable, resilient, low-carbon societies, cities need big changes to critical infrastructure and systems. But ample research shows they can’t raise the investment needed for those big...
View ArticleSouth African Cities Show Commitment to Accelerate Water Resilience at 2023...
South Africa’s cities are economic engines, drawing workers across the country and the continent. Of the country’s 58.8 million population, 68% live in urban areas. Between 2000 and 2014, urban area in...
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