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GreenCityLabHuế: Nature-based solutions for low-cost climate adaptation

GreenCityLabHuế: Nature-based solutions for low-cost climate adaptation

A historic Vietnamese city is testing low-cost green projects to cope with rising heat and flooding, repeating by design what its old town once did by instinct.
Prague's Manual for Urban Planning

Prague's Manual for Urban Planning

Facing decades of car-centered planning and poor-quality streets, Prague's planning institute wrote a public space manual. In 2024 it was awarded as a best-practice case from the Living Cities Initiative. A new USE case study looks at what it changed.
Prague Public Space Design Manual: A Governance Tool for Urban Space Transformation

Prague Public Space Design Manual: A Governance Tool for Urban Space Transformation

The Prague Public Space Design Manual is a public governance document published in 2014 by the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague).

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Linköping, Sweden

Linköping Carbon Neutral 2025

In 2011 the Municipal Council adopted its long-term climate goal to make Linköping a carbon-neutral community by 2025.
New Taipei City's Climate Action Plan
New Taipei, Taiwan

New Taipei City's Climate Action Plan

New Taipei City is combating climate change through innovative and state-of-the-art interventions.
Cape Town, South Africa

City of Cape Town’s Water Map

The Cape Town Water Map is a novel behaviour-change tool that helped reduce water use during the extreme drought experienced in Cape Town from 2015-2018.
Flood Information System of the State of Paraná, Brazil
State of Paraná, Brazil

Flood Information System of the State of Paraná, Brazil

The quality and timeliness of flood warning need to be improved in many places in Brazil. To achieve this aim a complex multi-level and multi-dimensional process is required. The State of Paraná in Brazil has undertaken such a process with promising results.
Xianning, China

Improving Traffic Safety near Schools

A low-carbon initiative to change travel behaviours
ENCICLA - sustainable mobility program
Valle de Aburrá, Colombia

ENCICLA - sustainable mobility program

EnCicla is a public bicycle system providing sustainable mobility to the residents of the Valley of Aburrá.

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Werner Jann

Individual | Public Administration and Public Policy
Abimbola  Tofowomo
Lagos, Nigeria

Abimbola Tofowomo

Individual | Urban Planning
Hazhi Hassan
Munich, Germany

Hazhi Hassan

Individual | Student
Laura Keogh
Dublin, Ireland

Laura Keogh

Individual | Head of Engagement
Javier Vera Cubas
Lima, Peru

Javier Vera Cubas

Individual | Architect
Elizabeth Porter
Dakar, Senegal

Elizabeth Porter

Institution | Educator