Why cities live forever
China tries building a new kind of megalopolis
This is what the cities of the future could look like
Internal and international influences on urban change
68% of world population will live in urban areas by 2050
Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent
Projecting global urban growth through 2100 based on historical time series data and future shared SEPs
Smart Cities:
United 4 smart sustainable cities
Smart cities, the Dutch approach
How to build a smart city that will last
Six technologies crucial for smart cities
3D planning tool for the city of tomorrow
Migrating smart city applications to the cloud
Humane smart cities: the need for governance
Open City Data Portal WCCD Open Data Portal
As world crowds in, cities become digital laboratories
Smart cities should put the power in the hands of the people
Adaptive cities? Institutional innovation under climate change
Data-driven molecular engineering of solar-powered windows
Digital Earth: the paradigm now shaping our world's data cities
Intelligent facades generating electricity, heat and algae biomass
Smart Cities How smart cities will help us meet the global SDGs
Modeling reveals significant climatic impacts of megapolitan expansion
Smart cities' data: challenges and opportunities for semantic technologies
Planning an Open Cities Mapping Project: open data for resilience initiative
Smart ways to mobilise more efficient and effective long-term investment in city regions
A global analysis of urban design types and road transport injury: an image processing study
Impacts of RF EMF from cell phone towers and wireless devices on biosystem and ecosystem
Safe cities:
Flooded cities
Safe Cities Index
World City Risk 2025
Cities safer by design
The city as a risk area
Urban risk assessments
Envisioning safer cities with AI
Local governments core of risk reduction
World Disasters Report 2010 - urban risks
Reducing risk is key for sustainable urbanization
How density makes us safer during natural disasters
How to adapt disaster management to an urban context
Experts brainstorm ways to fund cities to withstand disasters
Building resilient communities through geospatial intelligence
Using high resolution satellite data for the identification of urban natural disaster risk
Remote sensing-based proxies for urban disaster risk management and resilience: a review
Resilient cities:
100 Resilient Cities
Resilient Cities 2014
Making cities resilient
Financing the resilient city
City resilience index Dec 2015
GFDDR city resilience program
How to make cities more resilient
Urban resilience movements unite
Let's make a deal for resilient cities
Resilient cities - a Grosvenor report
Resilience.io - a revolution in planning
Urban resilience - RAMSES interviews
How much are trees worth to megacities?
Open data infrastructure for city resilience
The Rockefeller Foundation resilient cities
Making cities sustainable and resilient action
City resilience action planning tool (CityRAP)
The value of flood-resilient architectual design
Self-repairing cities Trenchless technology of the future
The next-generation city: resilient, smart and sustainable
Towards resilience and transformation for cities within a finite planet
Resilient cities: changing the way we think about urban infrastructure
Developing pre-disaster resilience based on public & provate incentivization
Realising the multiple benefits of climate resilience and inclusive development in informal developments
Cities and sustainability:
Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index
The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'
Satellites find sustainable energy in cities
Geneva UN charter on sustainable housing
Curbing urban sprawl to make cities more sustainable
Sustainable service delivery in an increasingly urbanized world
Cities are harnessing the power of renewable energy: here's how
Integrating sustainable development and DRM of historic urban areas
How local governments have become a factor in global sustainability
C40 & Siemens inaugural city leadership awards honour 10 cities for excellence in urban sustainability
World cities come up with a 5-point action plan to work together for sustainable development and DRR
City ecosystems:
Urban ecosystems
Expertise - green resources
Environment & urbanization
Reflecting on cities and leadership
Cities gobbling up huge land masses
Cities have unique microbial 'fingerprints'
Urban environment - thematic assessment
Urban soils release surprising amounts of CO2
Smartphone measurements map neighborhood noise
Nature and mental hehalth: an ecosystem service perspective
Planetary stewardship in an urbanizing world: beyond city limits
Beyond urban legends: an emerging framework of urban ecology
What cities do best: how to maximize the role of cities in a low carbon future
A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and anti-microbial resistance
Quantification of urban metabolism through coupling with the life cycle assessment framework
Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools
Cities and climate change:
Climate change and the city
City planning for climate change
Urban climate change in context
Urban climate adaptation planning
Water, megacities and global change
Helping cities plan for climate change
The state of cilty climate finance 2015
City mayor's climate resilience compact
Climate-proofing tomorrow’s cities, today
Framework for city climate risk assessment
Cities lead the way in climate-change action
Turning the urban challenge into an opportunity
Guiding principles for city climate action planning
Urban climate: processes, trends and projections
Strengthening climate change in urban education
'Top Down' climate data don't serve growing cities
City and building designers, and climate adaptation
How vulnerable could your city be to climate impacts?
Climate change is making cities sick and we need to act
How climate change could impact the world's greatest cities
Which mega-cities offer best protection from climate change
8 points on financing climate change adaptation in urban areas
Creative ways cities can fight the climate change 'slow tsunami'
Toward typologies of urban climate and global environmental change
84% of world's fasttest growing cities face'extreme' climate change risks
Building urban resilience to climate change: what works where, and why
Dialogue for decision-making: unpacking the 'City Learning Lab' approach
Adapting infrastructure and civil engineering practice to a changing climate
Urban climate change resilience in action: lessons from projects in 10 ACCCRN cities
Protecting our capital - how climate change adaptation in cities creates a resilient place for business
Urban opportunities: perspective on climate change, resilience, inclusion, and the Informal Economy
Cities, energy, emissions, transportation:
How traffic jams decentralize cities
Hybrid energy storage system for urban use
Urban underground holds sustainable energy
Relation between urban population and air pollution
Front-running cities changing transport, improving quality of life
Implications of urban structure on carbon consumption in metropolitan areas
City flooding:
Managing urban runoff
Cities and flooding guidebook
Cities key to mitigating flood risk
How to build a flood-resilient city
Unplanned urbanization increasing flood impacts
CDP Cities 2013: summary report on 110 global cities
Scientists examine ways to put stormwater to use in big cities
Floods, heat, migration: How extreme weather will transform cities
City planning:
Urban
CityZenith
HABITAT III
Global road map
Tomorrow's cities
Urban observatory
No city is an island
Wanted: human cities
Urban planning for city leaders
Resilience.io - a revolution in planning
Multi-dimensional thinking of i-SUSTAIN
Mapping 6,000 years of urban settlements
Urban anthologies - learning from our cities
World Habitat Day ceremony draws thousands
Why we need to revolutionise our study of cities
World urbanization prospects - the 2011 revision
State of the world's cities 2012/2013: prosperity of cities
Megacities: pushing the boundaries of our (insurance) industry
Housing sales data used to estimate value of urban natural resouces
Planning, connecting and financing cities - now: priorities for city leaders
Designing the New Urban Agenda: lessons from international agreements
Light pollution:
New atlas of light pollution
A global map of urban extant from nightlights
Cities at night revealed by NASA-NOAA satellite
Building codes & materials:
Self-shading windows
Wood windows are cooler than glass
Structure of 'concrete disease' solved
Modern roof shapes tested in high-speed wind tunnel
New residential water heater concept promises high efficiency, lower cost
Urban sprawl:
Urban sprawl
The end of sprawl
Across the globe, urban sprawl is spreading
Beyond sprawl: a new vision of the solar suburbs of the future
Suburban sprawl cancels carbon-footprint savings of dense urban cores
A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009
Open access city models:
AccuCities
Cities and urban poor:
Stewart Brand on squatter cities
Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor
Adapting to climate change: cities and the urban poor
Cities prepare! Reducing vulnerabilities for the urban poor
New towns going up in developing nations pose major risk to the poor
Regional:
Europe:
Smart London
EEA - Urban Atlas
Venice hasn't stopped sinking after all
Climate change and flood risk in Europe
Alpine cities feel heat from climate change
Turning London into SimCity with real data
UN recognizes Barcelona as role model city
Mediterranean cities adapt to climate change
Helsinki: the prospects for urban densification
Urbanization impacts on the climate in Europe
Ensuring quality of life in Europe's cities and towns
Varese Ligura, Italy - a small town with high renewables
Europe's future depends on cities resilient to climate change
Can Rotterdam become the world's most sustainable port city?
Italy: mega urban changes and impacts in the decades of the 2000s
Assessing the dynamics of urban vulnerability to climate change: case of Helsinki, Finland
Adapting to climate change in European cities: towards smarter, swifter & more systemic change
London: low carbon, low risk, low density - reolving choices about sustainable development in cities
Situated lifestyles: lifestyles changes with level of urbanization - greenhouse gas implications - Finland
Portugal: atmospheric electric field measurements in urban environment and the pollutant aerosol cycle
Russia:
Implementing ITU-T International standards to shape smart sustainable cities: the case of Moscow
Middle East:
Saudi Arabia's new desert megacity
The state of Arab cities 2012 - challenges of urban transition
Africa:
Africa's adaptation gap 2 - technical report
Cape Town: What it takes to be a role model city
Building urban resilience to climate change - South Africa
Building climate resilient villages:global experience and Ethiopia
Soon every African village will know what the weather may bring
From floods to disease, disaster risk rising in surging African cities
North African coastal cities address natural disasters and climate change
African urbanisation and urbanism: implications for risk accumulation and reduction
Green Hills, Blue Cities: an ecosystems approach to water resources management for African cities
Asia:
Building Urban Resilience in East Asia
Buiding partnerships in the Asia-Pacific Region
Developer unveils vision of cities as havens during disasters
Development in ADB Pacific development member countries
China:
Beijing necessitates risk analysis
Aspiring toward healthy cities in China
Expansion and growth in Chinese cities 1978-2010
UN Shanghai manual launches to guide urban futures
UNISDR and China launch new urban resilience award
China works to implement standard digital city framework
Urban China: toward efficient, inclusive, and sustainable urbanization
Four ways to boost Hong Kong's position as an innovative, future ready city
Modeling buildings by the millions: building codes in China tested for energy savings
Contrating impacts of urban forms on the future thermal environment - Beijing metropolitan area
India:
India: Towards urban resilience
Planning climate resilient coastal cities: India
Mumbai: density, energy and metabolism of a proposed smart city
Risk governance in the megacity Mumbai - a complex adaptive system perspective
Nepal:
Nepal building codes
Vietnam:
Can Tho, Vietnam: enhancing urban resilience
Inside Hanoi's gated communities: elite enclaves where even the air is cleaner
Philippines:
Business risk assessment and the management of climate change impacts - 12 Philippine cities
Malaysia:
Malaysia may offer model for global growth
Singapore:
First civilian photogrammetric UAV flight over Singapore
North America:
USA:
Safest US cities
Urban adaptation assessment
US smart cities effort targets data apps
NYC panel on climate change 2019 report
New York's carbon emissions - in real time
Boston names first Chief Resilience Officer
Major US city post-oil preparedness ranking
Impact of urbanization on US surface climate
Mid-century warming in the Los Angeles region
Vancouver plans to face climate change head-on
The Mannahatta Project - New York before the city
How climate change could leave US cities uin the dark
Study finds serious challenges to 'New Urbanist' communities
Researchers create citywide building energy model for Boston
Geographers provide new insight into commuter megaregions of the US
Study maps greenhouse gas emissions to building, street level for US cities
NOAA analysis reveals significant land cover changes in US coastal regions
Preparing US community greenhouse gas inventories for climate action plans
Carbon reductions and health co-benefits from US residential energy efficiency measures
A framework re relationship between social factors that reduce resilience in cities: City of Boston
South America:
Rio de Janeiro's bid to become a smart city
Linkages between population dynamics, urbanization and disaster risk: a regional vision of Latin America