Reading Time: 4 minutesSprawling informal settlements are expanding every year in major South African cities. In Cape Town, the housing crisis is as severe as anywhere in the country and they have a plan to fix it.
Category: Cities
A better balance for Barranquilla: How the city is tackling inequality
Reading Time: 4 minutesBarranquilla, Colombia is making a name for itself through its urban transformation. It has halved its poverty rate in less than ten years and it’s not stopping there…
Back to basics in Braga: Making urban homes more affordable
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe city of Braga, in the North of Portugal, is facing a housing crisis unprecedented in its recent history. The municipality decided it was time for a reset…
The Chattanooga challenge: Bringing its people in from the cold
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I knew from my first day in office that we needed to unite our community and take bold and decisive steps to tackle the homelessness crisis”, says Mayor Tim Kelly. This is how we did it.
Greening Glasgow’s homes
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat many unfamiliar with our city perhaps don’t appreciate is that Glasgow is already home to some of the UK’s, if not Europe’s, highest quality social and affordable housing. How did Glasgow get there?
From restrictions to reimagination: Amsterdam’s vision for a new tourist economy
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat did Amsterdam’s city planners come up with when they sat down to reimagine what tourism can do for the city?
Mental health in the city
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a recent survey, more than half of U.S. mayors named mental health as the one of their main post-pandemic challenges. They’re not wrong. While city leaders have always grappled with the seemingly negative association between city-living and health outcomes, the pandemic exacerbated many existing mental health crises.
How can the cities of the Global South grow green?
Reading Time: 4 minutesNigeria’s economic powerhouse Lagos has doubled its population over the last two decades to 24 million. It could reach between 85 and 100 million inhabitants by 2100. As the cities of the Global South expand, can they grow green?