On November 16th and 17th, The Atlantic hosted the fourth-annual Green Intelligence Forum: Creating the Sustainable City of the Future. The forum brought together the world’s leading authorities on energy and the environment for two days of dynamic conversation on the issues at the forefront of sustainable thought. Continue reading…

AlJazeera English published a video about Abu Dhabi’s Masdar city entitled “Abu Dhabi’s Masdar plan: behind the scenes at the green city”. Masdar City is an emerging global clean-technology cluster what aims to be one of the world’s most sustainable urban developments powered by renewable energy. Continue reading…

How can cities help save the future? Alex Steffen, one of the world’s leading voices on sustainability, social innovation and planetary futurism, delivering a TED talk showing some cool neighborhood-based green projects that expand our access to things we want and need — while reducing the time we spend in cars. Continue reading…

Liveability assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. Assessing liveability has a broad range of uses. Liveability is increasingly used by city councils, organisations or corporate entities looking to test their locations against others to see general areas where liveability can differ. Continue reading…

Manu Fernandez has published a selection of 75 videos that vary in focus and perspective, but together compose a good database of videos that are circulating out there and deal with many of the issues urban policies face nowadays. Continue reading…

The Philips Livable Cities think tank believes that livable cities are successful cities. They have identified three important and interlinked ingredients of a livable city: resilience, inclusiveness and authenticity, and published an infographic illustrating the concept. The think tanks operating within The Philips Center for Health & Well-being. Continue reading…

Liveanomics: Urban liveability and economic growth is the second of two Economist Intelligence Unit reports, commissioned by Philips, which examine the issue of liveability in cities. The first report in the series addressed what city residents want from their cities, and how city leaders can deliver on citizens’ requirements. This second report examines the role of business within cities. Continue reading…

Over the next few years, cities will need to grapple with the challenges and opportunities of managing very tight budgets and the increased responsibilites associated with localism. At the same time cities will need to respond to on-going processes of economic change, and find ways to effectively support growth and job creation in the private sector. Continue reading…

Ahmed Abukhater, Global Industry Manager for Community Development at Esri explains in Next American City magazine how to shift from “planning for people” to “planning with people” using new technologies and platforms. Continue reading…

The world is in the midst of a global mass urbanization that will change everything from how we govern and eat to how we care for the environment. McKinsey What Matters has convened thinkers from around the world to look at the implications of Urban Man. Continue reading…