The UN-Habitat’s Report on Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future presents an analysis of the situation of the COVID-19 in cities and urban areas after one year since the declaration of pandemic and outlines a range of bold measures that could deliver a lasting and sustainable recovery from…

Urban Design for Street Vendors in Hyderabad Street vending has historically driven and dominated the informal economy in the Indian city of Hyderabad. The inception of urban migration saw a range of marginalized groups move into the city, creating stark rural-urban differences and causing residents and the city…

Seating is an important contributor to the social effectiveness of public spaces, due to its ability to support stay activities. This paper focuses on the contributions seating makes to sociability in Queen Street Mall in Brisbane, a public space where limited qualitative assessment has been conducted on seating…

The Report on UN-Habitat’s COVID-19 Response covers a range of immediate response and longer term recovery activities at the corporate, regional and country levels from March to August 2020. During that time, UN-Habitat supported the overall response to the pandemic in 37 countries and more than 250 cities, benefiting…

Community In Bloom (CIB) is a nationwide gardening programme under the National Parks Board (NParks) in Singapore. Since the programme’s inception in 2005, NParks has been actively engendering a gardening culture, a greater sense of civic ownership and community stewardship by facilitating the starting and developmen…

Over the last 18 months, a movement has been growing, drawing together Londoners who want to make the city greener, healthier, fairer and even more beautiful. Who’s involved? All kinds of people – cyclists, scientists, tree climbers, teachers, students, pensioners, unemployed, under-employed, doctors, swimmers, garden…