- Urban Development Overview - World Bank Group
Urban Development As the world's largest multilateral financier of urban development, the World Bank works with national and local governments to build more livable, sustainable, and resilient cities and communities
- Urban Development - World Bank Group
Urban Development As the world's largest multilateral financier of urban development, the World Bank works with national and local governments to build more livable, sustainable, and resilient cities and communities
- Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes
- Leveraging Urbanization in Sri Lanka - World Bank Group
Beyond differing definitions of “urban,” complicating cross-country comparisons is the fact that definitions of “urban” within a country can change over time For example, in 1987 Sri Lanka tightened its definition by reclassifying town councils as rural areas (pradeshiya sabha)
- Urbanization in Thailand is dominated by the Bangkok urban area
Urbanization in Thailand was the fifth largest in East Asia in terms of area and the ninth largest in terms of its population approaching 10 million in 2010 No other urban area in Thailand had more than 500,000 people
- Urban Transport in Yangon and Mandalay: Review of Sector Institutions . . .
A new report on Urban Transport in Yangon and Mandalay provides an assessment of urban mobility in Myanmar’s two largest cities for policymakers
- Urban Development Portfolio in Romania - World Bank Group
The Romanian Urban Policy is designed to advise on the vision of a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient urban development in line with the EU’s Urban Agenda It represents a common agenda of the public authorities at central and local levels in order to improve the urban development framework, by providing a set of coherent measures and by coordination and correlation of the sectoral fields
- New World Bank Financing Set to Revamp Dodoma’s Urban Mobility and . . .
A new World Bank-financed investment will enhance mobility and accessibility in Tanzania’s capital, Dodoma, unlocking economic opportunities and creating over 10,000 new jobs by 2030, while boosting the city’s economic output by 2%
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