Natalia Olson-Urtecho: "Disruption means deciding outside the box"
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Co-Founder and Innovation Officer of The Disruptive Factory and expert in public policies and public engagement
Tatiana Gallego: "Financing urban infrastructure is a real challenge for Latin American cities"
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Division Chief for Housing and Urban Development at the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
2019 in Urban Challenges: CitiesToBe review of the Year
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Communications Coordinator at anteverti & CitiesToBe Co-Director
Feminist urbanism, creativity for sustainability, radical inclusion and growing inequalities: we list this year's most popular topics according to the visitors of this blog, as 2019 comes to an end and we welcome a new decade.
Juliet Schor: "We see a '99% to 1%' inequality in many cities"
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Professor of Sociology at Boston College and researcher
Finding inspiration in urban complexity: 1st edition of the CitiesToBe Photo Award launched!
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collaborative article
If you love cities as much as photography, submit your entry for the CitiesToBe Photo Award before 16th February 2020!
Alice Charles: “Mayors look for solutions with the greatest cost-benefit”
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Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum
Kilian Kleinschmidt: “All cities are refugee camps”
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Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.
Urban innovation matters: 10 articles and resources to highlight why
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collaborative article
The importance of data, research and experiment; thinking outside of the box; a human-centered digitalization approach; putting people at the core: these are some of the keys to foster smarter cities, according to our team's expertise.
Mikael Colville-Andersen: “We need to create a space for cycling in cities”
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CEO of Copenhagenize Design Company
Emilia Sáiz: “Competition among cities is not an impediment for cooperation”
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Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
«Think globally, act locally.» The world has changed a lot since the first decades of the 20th century, when the Scottish
Emilia Saiz: "Cooperation should be at the core of cities”
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Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Sladjana Mijatovic: “Cities are a great opportunity to change systems”
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Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam
Creativity is boosting urban sustainability – and here are 10 examples
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anteverti Consultant
Art and Science are probably not two disciplines you would think about merging when approaching the fight against climate change.
How can feminist urbanism help build more equal cities? Lessons from Latin America
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Advisor for the Women and Inclusive Growth at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and researcher
Urban spaces still often mirror gender inequality, but feminist urbanism-activism can be a powerful vector to move towards more equal, inclusive and safe cities – as it is happening in Latin America.
Jeff Merritt: “Data-driven cities bring benefits and vulnerabilities”
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Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR
Cities leading the fight against climate change
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anteverti Consultant
Cities hold the key to tackling climate change given that they are responsible for 80% of global emissions.
Maya Wiley: "We see the challenges of a society in cities"
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Civil rights activist and board chair of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board
Linda Weiss: “Global issues need to start from a city level”
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Professor of political science at the University of Sydney
Our cities in 2017: the technologies that matter
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Author and consultant
A review of what’s moving, to better understand where to act.
Smart cities evolution and future-proof technologies
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Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission
Joan Clos: “Good urbanisation requires a collective effort”
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Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat
A glimpse into global challenges through global experts
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Consultant and Urban Expert
The world we live in is bringing a picture of global challenges when we try to discern between risks and opportunities.
Raquel Rolnik: "We need the right to the city more than ever"
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Prof. at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at University of São Paulo
Gabriella Gómez-Mont: "Cities are the best vehicle for ideas to travel"
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Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City
Public Spaces in African cities
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Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities
African public spaces are complex, especially so against the backdrop of fast urbanising cities and increasing socio-economic volatility.
Parvati Nair: "Urbanisation wouldn't happen without migration"
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Director of the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility
Youth engagement in politics
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Head of Knowledge & Policy, Climate Infrastructure Partnership
Youth engagement in politics encourages youth to become actors rather than subjects.
Darko Radovic: "The city is a special projection of society on the ground"
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University
Inazio Martínez de Arano: "Forests belong to the urban domain"
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Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office
Jane Jacobs, Eyes on the street
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Director of Innovation and Strategic Development in anteverti
On the 100th anniversary of Jane Jacobs, her new perspective to urbanism is remembered.
Kumaresh Mishra: "Urban development is a fact"
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Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations
What Makes A Thriving And Interesting City? Something Called Collision Density
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Professor of Entrepreneurship
Boyd Cohen states that the growth of collision density results in urban entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Raquel Rolnik: “Finance has taken over built spaces”
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Prof. at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at University of São Paulo
Markku Markkula: "We need bottom-up collaboration to innovate"
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First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions
Smart City 2.0: Cities of and for the people
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Assoc. Professor. ESADE Business Law School
We are witnessing a transition point, a moment of change in the understanding of what a Smart City is.
Ellis J. Juan: "Technology will help us tackle citizen participation "
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Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative General Coordinator at Inter-American Development Bank
Manu Fernández: "Smart city projects need contextualization"
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Founder of Human Scale City & Senior Consultant in anteverti
To Manu Fernández the smart city as urban proposal seeks to provide a framework to explain and sort out the digital presence in the city that is becoming normal in the urban realm.
Amador Ferrer: "One challenge for urbanists is demographic growth"
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Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull
Bahaaeddin Alhaddad: "Happines in cities is not a new subject"
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Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd
Darko Radovic: "Objectivity cannot be claimed in urbanism"
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University
Bharati Chaturvedi: "A smart city is smart if it can harness human capital"
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Founder and Director. Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Pankaj Ghemawat: "Focussing on globalization at a city level"
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Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE
Dan Lewis: "We need to look at the immigration flows as flows of assets"
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President, Westcoast International. Forrmer Chief Urban Risk Reduction, UN Habitat
Edward Glaeser: “Technology has the power to improve our quality"
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Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Aníbal Gaviria: "Medellín es un ejemplo de inspiración para otras ciudades"
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Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)
Cécile Faraud: “A circular city is the one that makes the most of its resources"
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London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP
Shannon Lawrence: "Citizen engagement is essential to ensure cities' future"
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Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Beth Noveck: "Human capital is the most important asset for smarter cities"
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Founder and Director. Governance Lab
Stephen Goldsmith: "There are different ways of exchanging information"
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Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School
