Policy and planning

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Urban planning

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Urban ARK 15: Assessing Multi-Hazard Risk to Urban Infrastructure using Low-Cost GIS Techniques

Publication, 01 October 2018

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Planning for affordable housing during densification in Kathmandu: Lessons from four settlements

Publication, 01 June 2015

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Responding to the transport crisis in Karachi: Appendices

Publication, 01 July 2015

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Rationalising peri-urban water supply in Can Tho, Vietnam

Publication, 01 December 2015

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Urban planning following humanitarian crises: supporting local government to take the lead in the Philippines following super typhoon Haiyan

Publication, 01 June 2017

A woman market trader holds up a small plastic bag of fresh fish.

The politics at play in Vietnam’s food system

Insight, 16 September 2020

A large sign in a street

Cities: where public health and climate experts must meet

Article, 24 July 2020

Woman carrying a child

Bringing urban refugees into local planning

Insight, 20 July 2020

Passengers at a busy train station

The world’s fastest growing cities

Insight, 24 March 2020

A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi

Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons

Insight, 25 February 2020

People looking at a map

Learning from community planning following the Haiti earthquake

Archived Project

A map showing the neighbourhoods around Port-au-Prince, Haiti

IIED publishes archive on post-quake planning in Haiti

News, 09 January 2020

Roadside stalls

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Insight, 12 August 2019

A street scene with pedestrians, stallholders, motorbikes and cars

Making Indian cities inclusive means making them more walkable

Insight, 05 June 2019

In Mexico City, the Metrobus BRT system carries roughly 250,000 people daily. It cuts workers' travel times and also helps to reduce carbon emissions (Photo: City Clock Magazine, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How Bus Rapid Transit can make housing affordable to low-income households

Insight, 06 June 2018

A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty

Insight, 21 July 2016

Like many East African cities, Rwanda's capital Kigali faces the challenges of rapid growth and insufficient infrastructure (Photo: Kigali Wire, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Why low-carbon urban development in African cities makes economic sense

Insight, 01 April 2016

The Bairro Proletário do Dique in Rio de Janeiro was settled in the 1960s. The local infrastructure remains poor (Photo: Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brasil, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?

Insight, 02 March 2016

Physical barriers have been installed around Karachi to protect the city from violent conflict, but their impacts have been publically disruptive and socially divisive (Photo: Noman Ahmed and colleagues)

Barricading Karachi: how private security contributes to dividing the city

Insight, 01 December 2015

The Tanah Abang district of the Indonesian capital Jakarta has chronic traffic problems. Attempts to clear informal settlements and street vendors are frequently met with protests (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Ten urban planning principles every humanitarian should know

Insight, 10 November 2015

In 1992 the United Nations called Mexico City "the most polluted city on the planet". City authorities took radical steps to cut pollution, but Mexico City still has smog and is increasingly vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Fidel Gonzalez, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Should cities invest in climate mitigation?

Insight, 21 September 2015

Woman using a public water tap in Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Johannesburg uses 32 different indicators to assess progress towards its strategic goals. Indicators need to reflect the needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups (Photo: Ray Muzyka, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The value and limits of urban sustainability indicators

Insight, 21 April 2015

The rice fields on outskirts of the city of Bandung, Java, Indonesia: urban areas often have damaging impacts on the areas around them (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)

New publication looks at environmental impacts of urban areas

News, 16 March 2015

Informal settlements such as this one in Durban, South Africa, are adversely affected by climate-related impacts (Photo: David Dodman)

Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier

Insight, 23 October 2014

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