This report, produced for the European Commission DG Environment, aims to provide local government actors and stakeholders with a concise guide to the best currently available indicator tools for sustainable cities, focusing on the environmental dimension. The tools summarised herein were chosen based on scalability and ease of use, and the positive and negative aspects of each for different situations of cities are addressed, along with real-world case studies that demonstrate how they can be implemented. Continue reading →

Community wealth building is a systems approach to economic development that creates an inclusive, sustainable economy built on locally rooted and broadly held ownership. The aim is to create a new system that enables inclusive enterprises and communities to thrive and helps families increase economic security. Continue reading →

A new World Bank Group report analyzes what makes a city competitive and how more cities can grow their economies. According to the report, improving the competitiveness of cities is a vital pathway to eliminating extreme poverty and promoting prosperity for a country’ s citizens. If every average city had managed to do as well as a competitive city, the world would have added 19 million new jobs in 2012 alone. Continue reading →

LSE Cities’ Urban Age programme takes a deeper look at the statistics showing that the world is heading towards 70% urbanisation by 2050 to reveal the regional differences in demographic, economic and environmental change. Continue reading →

The five chapters featured in this FreeBook, brought to you by Routledge, share the goal of making urban areas functional, attractive, and sustainable. The publisher aims to highlight some of his newest practitioner-oriented titles and illustrate the global scope of the work being done in this field. Continue reading →