Transforming cities: Visions of a better future
Organisation: Rockefeller Foundation
Publish Date: 2013
Country: Global
Sector: Social Development
Method: Creative thinking
Theme: Living Standards
Type: Document
Language: English
Tags: Megacities, Urbanization, Population growth, Strategies, Stakeholder involvement, Equity, Planning
Powerful trends will shape cities over the next 15 years. These include a diminishing long-term goal setting capacity, growing climate change vulnerability, and sharper gaps between public and private goods delivery. A new and innovative urban resiliency, shaped by long-term inspirational visions, but drawing on decentralized, short-term, adaptable data-informed action with overlapping collaboration between the public, business and civil society sectors is not only possible, but critical. The conference generated actionable plans to improve land use policies in Zambia, create urban data sharing hubs in India, and beyond as the trends and scenarios are applied to cities throughout the world.
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