Accelerating Urban Inclusion for a Just Recovery
This report draws global attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened stark inequalities in cities around the world. This report makes the urgent case for greater urban inclusion, ...
Communautés
Consejos de Futuro Global
Plateformes
Communautés
Consejos de Futuro Global
Plateformes
Global Future Council on the Future of Cities
Cities are the engine of the global economy and home to a growing majority of the world’s population. In the face of increasing global challenges, from inequality to climate change, how can cities advance and inform more inclusive and sustainable models of urban development?
Members
Lié Rapports
Delivering Climate Resilient Cities Using a Systems Approach
This report provides cities with an actionable strategy to enable cities take a systems approach to climate resilience strategies. A systems approach leverages linkages across multiple in...
Rethinking City Revenue and Finance
This report was prepared in collaboration with PwC and identifies how cities can rethink traditional revenues and financing mechanisms to enable cities to build back better and provide cl...
Using Digital Technology for a Green and Just Recovery in Cities
This report makes a case for the need for systematic digitalization in cities, the need to pursue an outcomes-based planning, design and implementation of digitalization projects, the str...
Net Zero Carbon Cities: An Integrated Approach
Cities cover 3% of the earth’s land surface yet they create more than 70% of all carbon emissions. To keep global temperature increases to 1.5°C or below, cities have to achieve net-zero....
Making Affordable Housing a Reality in Cities
About 90% of cities around the world do not provide affordable housing or of adequate quality. The cost of housing, as well as location, prohibits people from meeting other basic living c...
Agile Cities: Preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The world is urbanizing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming life at an unprecedented rate. Cities must be “agile” – able to move quickly and easily – to enable their citi...
Industrial Internet of Things: Safety and Security Protocol
The industrial internet represents one of the most promising and transformative applications of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Circular Economy in Cities: Evolving the model for a sustainable urban future
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Urban Development and Services Initiative has released its new whitepaper on the Circular Economy in Cities: evolving the model for a sustainable urba...
Data Driven Cities: 20 Stories of Innovation
The need for cities to fully harness the potential of data constantly flowing through them has never been more urgent. Data Driven Cities: 20 Stories of Innovation, highlights examples fr...
Migration and Its Impact on Cities
The World Economic Forum has released a report taking a deep dive on migration and cities, exploring the types, causes and patterns of migration, the most affected corridors and cities, t...
Harnessing Public-Private Cooperation to Deliver the New Urban Agenda
As this World Economic Forum report emphasizes, the future of cities largely depends on the way urbanization is managed and public-private collaboration is leveraged to implement the New ...
Reforms to Accelerate the Development of India’s Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Urban Development & Services
The report highlights the reforms required at state and local levels to implement smart cities in India. It recommends institutional, business-environment and sector-specific reforms to e...
Inspiring Future Cities & Urban Services: Shaping the Future of Urban Development & Services Initiative
The World Economic Forum has released a new report, Inspiring Future Cities & Urban Services
Top Ten Urban Innovations
10 of the best urban innovations that are having a positive effect on quality of life and economic development.
The Future of Urban Development Initiative: Dalian and Zhangjiakou Champion City Strategy
With 54% of the Chinese population living in cities, China has six megacities of more than 10 million inhabitants and 103 cities of more than one million inhabitants. This presents China ...
The Future of Urban Development Initiative: Tianjin Champion City Strategy
Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, was selected as the inaugural Champion City of the World Economic Forum’s Future of Urban Development Initiative in January 2012. As the inaugural cit...
Global Agenda Council on Urbanization 2012-2014
The growth of cities and unprecedented rural-to-urban migration throughout Asia, Latin America and parts of Africa are frequently cited as defining global trends of the 21st century. Whil...
En lire plus
All related content 
Nature-based solutions in cities are the future of the fight against climate change. Here's how to fund them
Mayors from Latin America, Africa and Asia will be welcoming more than 90% of the new urban inhabitants in the next decade. Governing these ballooning cities is a continuing challenge, no...
Open data is a game changer for cities worldwide — here's how to use it best
During the COVID-19 pandemic, cities witnessed the impact and potential of open data at scale.
To create net-zero cities, we need to look hard at our older buildings
Across the developed world, cities are dominated by under-utilized and energy inefficient buildings, despite many of them being less than 50 years old.
En vedette
Cities and Urbanization
Voir tous
Urban Greening: Planting More Trees Could Reduce Heat Deaths by 40%
London Is Turning The Old Camden Highline Into An Urban Oasis
Japan is Paying Families $7,600 Per Child to Move Out of Tokyo
The World's Most Expensive Cities: EIU's Worldwide Cost of Living Index
We are Entering the Era of the Megalopolis, Supercities Connected by Urban Sprawl
