One in three cities is at high risk of water stress. The 2030 Water Resources Group (WRG) helps cities prevent, respond to, and recover from water crises. This is done by facilitating partnerships between governments and businesses to manage water more effectively and create resilient and...

This note describes Carbon Monitor Cities 2.0, a new approach to near-real-time monitoring of city-level greenhouse gas emissions from various sectors without the need for local data collection. With support from the City Climate Finance Gap Fund, the World Bank piloted this approach for 11...

Sudden and unforeseen events, notably the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored and exacerbated pre-existing urban inequalities. These disruptions have disproportionately affected the most vulnerable sectors of society, thereby further aggravating existing inequalities. Addressing these inequality...

Several indicator and index frameworks have been reported to assess management efficiency and promote transparency, facilitating decision-making and innovation. However, they cannot be applied in cities with limited information, making them impractical. This study proposes a Sustainable Urban...

This study provides evidence that natural disasters negatively affect student outcomes, potentially explaining the lower academic achievement of students in rural areas compared to their urban counterparts in developing countries. Using data from the Colombian school census, I estimate a...

The article studies the impact of urbanization on income inequality in Vietnam, using panel data for 63 provinces and cities in the period 2010-2018. The study applies the fixed-effects regression model estimation method with the standard error of (Driscoll & Kraay, 1998) to test the...

The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010’s, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used “No Excuses” practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact...

Ensuring equity in education is crucial for sustainable development, yet it remains a global challenge. Previous research has extensively explored the spatial equity of educational resources in developed countries; however, there's a lack of adequate studies focused on cities within developing...

The objective of this paper is to verify the effect of the location of health facilities on amenable and child mortality in the city of Salvador in Brazil. Based on the theory of local public goods, we consider that the provision of public health facilities affects the local health condition,...

We construct an instrumental variable for the Internet penetration rate using China's "8-horizontal-8-longitudinal" optical cable network to identify the impact of the Internet on the agglomeration of producer services in cities. We find that, (i) the Internet promotes the agglomeration of...

Die Bedarfe an neuen Wohnungen und Häusern sind in vielen Städten und Gemeinden sehr hoch und werden nicht durch ein ausreicheichendes Wohnungsangebot gedeckt. Insgesamt werden im Zeitraum 2021 bis 2025 jedes Jahr 372.600 neue Wohnungen benötigt. Zwischen 2021 und 2023 wurden hingegen...

Prices for, and the affordability of childcare has received increased attention since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, concerns have been raised about potential differences in childcare costs and access between rural and urban communities. To address these issues, we combine...

Infolge der Neuen Leipzig Charta 2020 und des allgemeinen Wandels hin zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft gewinnt die kleingewerbliche Wirtschaftsstruktur in Städten wieder deutlich an Relevanz. Unter dem Konzept der "Produktiven Stadt" soll das Kleingewerbe in die bestehenden verschiedenen...

During the Soviet era, closed cities were off-limits to foreigners and unauthorized citizens. After the dissolution, many closed cities opened or were abandoned, but some Russian “ZATOs” (Закрытое административно-территориальное образование)...

This academic research manuscript, conducted under the scholarly journal standards of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), examines the experiences of families residing along the riverbanks of Tumaga River in Zamboanga City, Philippines, regarding urban flooding and their...

A growing literature employs distance-based measures of localization to assess the spatial distribution of firms with a focus on manufacturing across a country. We analyse the spatial concentration of a variety of consumer services firms in the Phoenix, AZ area using geo-referenced Yelp data...

This study aims to investigate welfare inequality between households in rural and urban Ethiopia using secondary data obtained from the Living Standards Measurement Surveys (LSMS) available on the World Bank website. The data was analyzed using the Atkinson Index to identify welfare inequality...

Many European cities still suffer from poor air quality and exceed the 2021 WHO air quality guidelines as well as the EU air quality standards. This is the case in particular for fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which is the air pollutant responsible for most of the well documented premature...

This paper aims to analyze the trends in income inequality in large cities within a selected sample of OECD countries. Specifically, we consider a set of determinants that account for changes in the income distribution and estimate their contributions to inequality by developing both a dynamic...

We examine three dimensions of spatial inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): between rural and urban areas (rural-urban divide), between large and small cities (metropolitan bias or centralization) and within metropolitan areas (urban segregation). As a first approach, we use...

Cities evolve rapidly while providing both opportunities and posing challenges. To cope with the emerging behaviours of cities, contextual innovations and development are essential. Driving innovations through the learning of contextual knowledge in cities is crucial. In this study, we explore...

Many European cities still suffer from poor air quality and exceed the 2021 WHO air quality guidelines as well as the EU air quality standards. This is the case in particular for fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which is the air pollutant responsible for most of the well documented premature...

Problems associated with urban freight are well known and documented in the academic literature, particularly with regards to the impact on air quality and general intrusion of public space. As a defining principle however, urban freight has generally been left solely to operate on free market...