The World Bank Group supports cities and mobilizes subnational finance to create jobs by buildingurbaninfrastructure and strengthening municipal services.
Extremeurbanheat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience. TheUrbanHeat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes.

Sep 16, 2024 ·Nature-based solutions likeurbanfarming, terraces, and green corridors can help citieswithclimate challenges includingurbanheat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions best meet their needs? In Kinshasa, indigenous knowledge, innovative tools, and proactive local government are helping to answer the question.

The RomanianUrbanPolicy is designed to advise on the vision of a sustainable, inclusive, and resilienturbandevelopment in linewiththe EU’sUrbanAgenda. It represents a common agenda of the public authorities at central and local levels in order to improve theurbandevelopment framework, by providing a set of coherent measures and by coordination and correlation of the sectoral fields ...

Mar 27, 2025 ·The Djibouti Integrated Slum Upgrading Project, launched in 2018, aims to improve living conditions in deprivedurbanareas in Djibouti City and to strengthen the capacity of public institutions responsible for implementing the Zero Slum Program.