Links

Here you can find different entities on World Cities topic.
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Association

• Cities Alliance – The Cities Alliance is a global coalition of cities and their development partners committed to scaling up successful approaches to poverty reduction
• Codatu – CODATU (Cooperation for urban mobility in the developing world) is an association with international vocation whose objective is to promote the actions of animation and scientific exchanges, technical, economic and social.
• CSAAR – The Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promote and encourage the study, understanding, and evaluation of architecture in the Arab region.
• ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability – ICLEI is an international association of local governments as well as national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development.
• Mega Cities Project – The Mega-Cities Project is a transnational, non-profit network of leaders from government, business, non-profits, grassroots groups, academia and media, dedicated to sharing innovative solutions to the problems they face in common.
• Metropolis – Metropolis is the World Association of Major Metropolises. Metropolis is also the metropolitan section of the United Cities & Local Government organization (UCLG), which arose from the merger between the IULA and UTO
• RUAF Foundation – The RUAF Foundation is an international network of six regional resource centres and one global resource centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security
• United cities and Local Government – United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve. Headquartered in Barcelona.

Blog

• All about cities – Cities are fascinating. This blog explores the economy, society, communities, people, businesses, organizations, infrastructure, civil society and government of cities — and the tensions and connections between them.
• Blog on cities and sustainability – This is a blog for news and views on the future of sustainable cites. It’s usually updated two or three times a week. But for the summer I’ll be adding new content a bit less often.

Program

• Urbact – URBACT is a European Programme, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which aims to foster the exchange of experience among European cities and the capitalisation-dissemination of knowledge on all issues related.
• Urbanization and Global Environmental Change – The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) exhibiting its increased focus on urban areas initiated recently the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change core project.

Research

• Megacities-Megachallenge – Informal Dynamics of Global Change – This is the webpage of the Priority Program 1233 “Megacities-Megachallenge – Informal Dynamics of Global Change”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Primary research areas are the process dynamics of global change and mega-urbanisation.
• Urban Research Network – Place where researchers and practitionners from all over the world can meet, discuss, share ideas and documents, and create networks that will address urban issues in developing countries.

Statistics

• CITY POPULATION – Population statistics and interactive maps; very update website on worldcities!
• World Gazetteer – The World Gazetteer provides a comprehensive set of population data and related statistics

Urban planning

• Imagine Durban – Imagine Durban is a council-led project on integrated, long-term planning. It is being implemented in conjunction with Sustainable Cities, an NGO from Vancouver, Canada and the PLUS Network (a network of 35 cities sharing experiences in sustainability pla
• Planetizen – Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design, and development community