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Designing Streets for Everyone: Lessons of Inclusive Transportation in Brazil

Complete streets are more than transportation infrastructure—they’re a foundation for healthier, more inclusive communities. This engaging course explores how Brazilian cities are applying complete street principles to create safer, more equitable, and sustainable urban environments. Through four real-world case studies, you’ll examine how diverse communities have transformed their streets into vibrant public spaces that prioritize…

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Designing and Implementing Safe Speeds for Livable Communities

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Community Benefits and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance

Explore how Detroit’s groundbreaking Community Benefits Ordinance (CBO) reshaped urban development through community engagement, sustainability, and justice. Learn how to apply these lessons to your own city or project. To read the source publication, go here.

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Building Climate-Resilient Cities: A Practical Guide to Hazard & Vulnerability Assessment

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Equitable Transportation and Accessible Neighborhoods

Cities that are built to be more accessible to all of its population stand the best chance of solving the problems of deteriorating environmental quality and economic competitiveness that stem from growing traffic congestion and urban sprawl. This course offers ways of rethinking the role of streets and whom they serve, shifting from individual transport modes toward…

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Climate Finance for Transportation Toolkit (Course and Catalogue)

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Integrated Urban Planning in the Global South

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Menggunakan data keanekaragaman hayati perkotaan

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数据和城市生物多样性

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Données sur la Biodiversité Urbaine

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Dados Sobre a Biodiversidade Urbana

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Successful Efforts led by REHOUSE Partners

This set of cases highlights the work of the REHOUSE (Resilient, Equitable Housing, Opportunities & Urban Services) partnership and other organizations that show the REHOUSE shared principles in practice. REHOUSE is a strategic partnership between WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, BRAC, Slum Dwellers International, Mahila Housing Trust, Habitat for Humanity International, and Build Change….

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利益相关者参与和治理管理结构

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Stakeholder Engagement and Governance Management Structures Course

Stakeholder Engagement and Governance Management Structures

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Sete transformações para cidades mais equitativas e sustentáveis curso

Sete transformações para cidades mais equitativas e sustentáveis

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Using Data in Urban Planning Course

Using Data in Urban Planning

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Seven Transformations for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities

The World Resources Institute (WRI) spent six years investigating economic, demographic, and resource challenges and how they widen gaps in urban services. We then synthesized a large body of evidence on how providing equitable access to urban services and opportunities—land, housing, transport, energy, water, sanitation, and secure employment—can lead to more economically prosperous and environmentally sustainable cities for all. WRI identified critical conditions…

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Urban Forests for Healthier Cities: Policy, Planning, Regulations, and Institutional Arrangements

Urban Forests for Healthier Cities: Policy, Planning, Regulations, and Institutional Arrangements

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Social Equity Considerations for Cities' Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

Social Equity Considerations for Cities’ Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

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Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities

Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities

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Toward Efficient Informal Urban Transit

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How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility

How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility

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City Climate Action Planning

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Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction

Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction

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Design Principles of Cycling [Draft Version]

Design Principles of Cycling [Draft Version]

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Benefits of Cycling [Draft Version]

Benefits of Cycling [Draft Version]

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Bisiklet Kullanımının Faydaları [Taslak]

Bisiklet Kullanımının Faydaları [Taslak]

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