Breakthroughs, trends, and innovations from cities around the globe

New York City
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Shanghai
Havana
Paris
Barcelona
Rio de Janeiro
Amsterdam
Nairobi
Melbourne
Abu Dhabi
Mumbai
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Justin McGuirk
London

London forges ahead with multi-decade plan, using 2012 Olympics profits, to create new parks, housing, schools and job opportunities within socially diverse communities.

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Susana Seijas
Mexico City

Recalling its monstrous 1985 earthquake, Mexico City trains  10,000 of its civil servants in disaster recovery techniques.

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Gail Jennings
JOHANNESBURG

Informal ‘jitney’ associations transcend their warload past to become shareholders in South Africa’s first ever Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system.

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Jay Walljasper
Chicago

Chicago models ambitious Climate Action Plan to slash carbon emissions and handle warming.

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Hannah Bae
SONGDO

Near Seoul, a new city rises from the mud flats, aiming to become a world model of sensor-activated, computer-driven management of an entire city.

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Fernando Serpone Bueno and Veridiana Sedeh
São Paulo

In a fast-urbanizing planet, Sao Paulo develops a model toolkit to improve housing for poor, dispossessed.

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