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Two women wearing masks hand over a bag to another woman wearing a mask
Q&A: Two years on, blog series maintains its focus – in changing and challenging times
… IIED launched the blog series ‘The transition to a predominantly urban world’ in January 2020 to examine different aspects of local and … David Satterthwaite (DS), who curates the series, reflects on the 50 blogs published to date. He highlights the topics that have really … readers’ interest and highlights what we can expect from future blogs. To read more about how these blogs came about, see the first …
Article, 09 May 2022
Digging the foundations for a new home in an informal settlement in Nairobi (Photo: April Rinne, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Off the beaten track: Urban Matters blog roll
… contributing to and strengthening the body of knowledge that informs urban climate change resilience. Alternative Routes to Urban Density … contribute to this blog. Posts are widely varied within the broad theme of urban development practice. Making of Cities This young blog is … new contributors and the sharing of its content. Manchester Policy Blogs: urban This blog is written by University of Manchester …
Article, 24 November 2015
Women sitting next to vegetables wear masks and keep social distancing.
What lessons can we learn from COVID-19 responses in African cities?
… multiple risks (including climate change, pandemics, and profound urban exclusions). Pandemic preparedness should extend far beyond the … could potentially catalyse  longer-term, transformative benefits  in urban areas, ranging from improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and shelter to more inclusive forms of urban governance that can work constructively with urban informality. 5. …
Insight, 04 July 2022
The April 2105 Nepal earthquake destroyed more than 500,000 buildings in Kathmandu. There was a huge international aid effort, but reconstruction has been slow (Photo: SIM Central and South East Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban Crises Learning Partnerships
… The two partnerships, the Stronger Cities Initiative and the Urban Crises Learning Partnership (UCLP) , ran in parallel from November … 2015 to November 2017, and were initiated as part of the broader Urban Crises Learning Fund initiative. This initiative sought to build … on learning events in Haiti, Bangladesh, and the UK; and a series of blogs and webinars on the consortium website www.urbancrisis.org . …
Project, 11 May 2017
A gold-plated "supercar". London's newspapers recently reported on a Saudi Arabian prince who had four gold-plated sports cars flown to London for his use while on holiday (Photo: Alexandre Prévot, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: tackling inequality and unsustainable consumption
… , report by Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel, 2015 About the Critical Theme series IIED set up the 'Critical Theme' discussion series to explore new ideas and to broaden the … Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) and its work on reducing urban poverty , and  the importance of meaningful stakeholder reporting . …
Event, 20 April 2016
Entrance to a garden
Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… this blog series focusing on the transition to a predominantly urban world was conceived before COVID-19, it would have been impossible … about their COVID-19 experiences.  This is the latest in a  series of blogs and interviews , curated by IIED senior fellow David … global urban change.  To date, 11 blogs have been published on this theme including nine city case studies. Although these show diverse …
Insight, 19 October 2021
Three women holding a sack of rice between them.
Seeking cheaper, better quality rice: the cooperative rice distribution project in Jakarta
… We have published many blogs on civil society’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes blog … Satterthwaite . We are now planning a new series of blogs on this theme with the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) . This is the … in Jakarta. The JRMK Network is supported by the Jakarta-based NGO Urban Poor Consortium (UPC). The context of the rice distribution …
Insight, 25 May 2022
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… III conference in Quito in October will seek to set out a 'new urban agenda' for our increasingly urban world. Last week, IIED launched … at the launch , was at Habitats I and II. Picking up on a common theme from the E&U articles, he observed that the impact of the first … noted that the language of Habitat returns incessantly to the theme of 'inclusion', but fails to consider the drivers of urban …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Young man on an empty street looking back.
Displacement and the pandemic
… and shared international response to refugee hosting and protection. Urban refugees Most displaced people today live in urban areas, generally receiving little or no assistance from the UN or national governments. As Lucy Earle writes, urban refugees are often conveniently assumed to be ‘self-reliant’ , an …
Article, 19 August 2020
A large sign in a street
Cities: where public health and climate experts must meet
… importance of  achieving a joined-up approach to risk management in urban settings. Given the impact that climate change and disasters have … the many simultaneous risks that cities have to face. Lessons from urban resilience Pandemics managers can gain from an understanding of how the community of people working on urban resilience has benefited from engaging with a wide variety of …
Article, 24 July 2020