Come and meet us
Opening times
Visit the School
New Cities Foundation
Posted on: 12 September 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: News
The New Cities Foundation is a non-profit Swiss institution dedicated to improving the quality of life and work in the 21st-century global city, with a particular focus on new cities in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.
Mitigation Action Plan and Scenarios (MAPS)
Posted on: 24 August 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: News
Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) is a collaboration amongst developing countries to establish the evidence base for long term transition to robust economies that are carbon efficient. In this way MAPS contributes to ambitious climate change mitigation that aligns economic development with poverty alleviation.
Where do the world’s poor live? A new update
Posted on: 18 July 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: News
This paper revisits, with new data, the changes in the distribution of global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs). In doing so it discusses an implied ‘poverty paradox’ – the fact that most of the world’s extreme poor no longer live in the world’s poorest countries. The paper outlines the distribution of global poverty as follows: half of the world’s poor live in India and China (mainly in India), a quarter of the world’s poor live in other MICs (primarily populous lower MICs such as Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia) and a quarter of the world’s poor live in the remaining 35 low-income countries. Underlying this pattern is a slightly more surprising one: only 7 per cent of world poverty remains in low-income, stable countries. The paper discusses factors that are behind the shift in global poverty towards middle income countries in particular and how sensitive the distribution of global poverty is to the thresholds for middle-income classification. The paper concludes with implications for research related to poverty.
The Global Urbanist
Posted on: 11 July 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: News
The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world. It was created in 2009 by alumni of urban policy and international development programmes at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, researchers and academics. It receives articles from professionals and concerned community members in these fields on any topic affecting the management of cities. Articles are published under one of the following six themes: planning, governance, economy, communities, environment, and international.
Are we building competitive and liveable cities? Guidelines for developing eco-efficient and socially inclusive infrastructure
Posted on: 11 July 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: News
The guidelines have been developed to inspire change among local governments (and other actors in the field of urban development) in the planning, designing and managing of urban infrastructure. The goal is to encourage an integrated approach, taking into account principles and criteria of eco-efficiency and social inclusiveness. Such an approach will help decision makers and planners identify and prioritise winwin solutions that lead to improved competitiveness of a city and the quality of life of its inhabitants, including the poor, through environmentally sustainable urban
development. Such development boosts a city’s attractiveness to both investors and residents. This report was developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), together with the Design Lab (UDL) of the Earth Institute, University of Columbia at New York.
Thinking ahead, building together: New Cities Summit 2012. Paris, 14-16 May 2012
Posted on: 27 June 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: Events presentations
The Summit, organised by the New Cities Foundation, aims to place the city at the heart of the global discussion. This invitation-only event is new in both content and form. It mixed high-level conversations featuring some of the most recognized global urban thought leaders and decision makers, including mayors, CEOs and business leaders, academics, architects, technologists, media leaders and entrepreneurs, with innovative demos and interactive thematic workshops. Workshop topics included: mobility, the creative and connected city, the just city, water, greener buildings, infrastructure finance, and regional sessions. China, India and Latin America were a particular focus area. Videos and an e-book are available online.
Summit for Sustainability in Africa. Gabarone, Botswana, 24-25 May 2012
Posted on: 20 June 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: Events presentations
The aim of this event was to demonstrate how African nations and their investment partners understand, manage and value natural capital. The Summit saw the endorsement of the Gaborone Declaration by ten African countries and numerous public and private sector partners from within and outside Africa. The Declaration presents a set of concrete principles and development goals that soundly move the value of natural capital from the periphery to the center of development planning. This document and videos of speeches are available online.
Southern voices on climate policy choices
Posted on: 11 June 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: News
This report provides an analysis of the tools and tactics advocacy groups use to influence policy responses to climate change at international, regional, national and sub-national levels. More than 20 climate networks and their member organisations have contributed to the report with their experiences of advocacy on climate change, including over 70 case studies from a wide range of countries – including many of the poorest – in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific.
Building climate change adaptation on community experiences: lessons from community-based natural resource management in southern Africa
Posted on: 11 June 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: News
This publication, produced in collaboration with WWF Southern Africa, looks at how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) can inform and contribute to climate change adaptation at the community level, specifically to community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change. It provides a framework for analysing the two approaches at conceptual and practical levels.
Sustainable Development Goals – Feasible, desirable or a leap too far? London, 8 May 2012
Posted on: 30 May 2012
By: mackene
No Comments »
Filed under: Events presentations
At this event convened by two of the UK’s leading international development organisations, the Overseas Development Institute and the Institute of Development Studies, a panel of experts discussed the desirability and feasibility of SDGs and explore how they might fit into the wider context of what replaces the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. Audio files from the event are available online.
What’s new
What’s new and Events presentations archive
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011