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Micro-Baguio: a 15 minute city

Micro-Baguio: a 15 minute city

An urban planning concept where residents can access most of their daily needs—work, shopping, healthcare, education, and recreation—within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from their home.
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Applications Open for 7th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation

Applications Open for 7th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation

Cities and local governments worldwide are invited to submit their innovative urban governance solutions for the prestigious biennial award recognising excellence in sustainable urban development.
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Colin MacFarlane wins 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award

Colin MacFarlane wins 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award

Award-winning book challenges cities to confront the sanitation crisis as a fundamental issue of democracy, equity, and human rights.
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Saebit Talk Talk

Saebit Talk Talk

A citizen participation platform to increase participatory planning
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SDG Progress Report 2025

SDG Progress Report 2025

Only 35% of 2030 sustainability goals on track, with 18% moving backwards
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UNDRR Disaster Risk Encyclopedia

UNDRR Disaster Risk Encyclopedia

Educational resources to help professionals understand and manage global disaster risks
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Micro-Baguio: a 15 minute city
Baguio, Philippines

Micro-Baguio: a 15 minute city

An urban planning concept where residents can access most of their daily needs—work, shopping, healthcare, education, and recreation—within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from their home.
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Songpa Solar Nanum (Sharing) Power Plant
Seoul , South Korea

Songpa Solar Nanum (Sharing) Power Plant

The Songpa Solar Nanum Power Plants aim to create a sustainable environment with community support, by implementing energy efficient projects with a focus on citizen welfare.
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Gwangju Carbon Bank system
Gwangju, South Korea

Gwangju Carbon Bank system

In 2008, the City of Gwangju has initiated a program to spark voluntary carbon-saving steps by citizens. Five years later, 1.5 million Gwangju citizens were already participating or 62 percent of the city’s population.
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Integrated planning of a shopping-centre
Graz, Austria

Integrated planning of a shopping-centre

The Murpark shopping centre combines economic benefits with a sustainable mobility concept.
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Milwaukee, United States

HOME GR/OWN Milwaukee

HOME GR/OWN Milwaukee empowers residents to transform neighbourhoods by re-purposing City-owned vacant lots into community food assets
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The Klindi Park project
Tallinn, Estonia

The Klindi Park project

Community engagement in green mobility infrastructure planning
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Kenny Javier Cayama Perez
Caracas, Venezuela

Kenny Javier Cayama Perez

Individual | Urbanista
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Anindita Anindita Mitra
Seattle, United States

Anindita Anindita Mitra

Individual | Sustainability Planner and Designer
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GRÜNSTATTGRAU
Vienna, Austria

GRÜNSTATTGRAU

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London, United Kingdom

Oliver Walker

Individual | Knowledge and Learning Officer
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Svenja Doran
Berlin, Germany

Svenja Doran

Individual | administrative officer
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Grand Paris, France

Jean François Habeau

Individual | Executive Director of FMDV
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