On World Cities Day 2024, the recognition of the critical role of cities in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has never been greater.
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Today, CitiIQ announced the integration of the Urban Monitoring Framework (UMF) into the innovative CitiIQ platform…
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Cities are living, breathing organisms, pulsating with the energy of thousands of individuals, interconnected systems, and intricate infrastructures.
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An Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast episode featuring CitiIQ’s Global Development Manager, Mackenzie Bent.
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Every year on March 22nd, the world unites to observe World Water Day, a momentous occasion dedicated to highlighting the significance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of water resources.
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October 31st is designated by the United Nations as World Cities Day - a day intended to recognize the opportunities and challenges of urbanization and initiate actions that will enable sustainable urban development. This year’s World Cities Day focuses on the theme of Financing a Sustainable Future for All.
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Protection against real and perceived threats to the security of a city is important for social stability. Giving priority to management and efforts to eradicate several behaviours such as criminality, violence, substance abuse, infection, natural disasters, terrorism, cybercrime and personal security will instill confidence in leadership and allow for individuals to thrive.
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The word ‘energy’ travels in a lot of places. We consume it, produce it, move it, store it and interact with energy all the time but it remains something of an abstraction.
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October 31st was the United Nations designated World Cities Day! A day intended to recognize the opportunities and challenges of urbanization and initiate actions that will enable sustainable urban development.
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A recent survey of over 200 municipal leaders in the United States provides strong insight into the challenges of using data in a meaningful way. CivicPulse, a US-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting local government leaders through open data and research, surveyed planning, public works and policymakers at a time when the need for data to drive change is becoming increasingly recognized.
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CitiIQ announced today the application of its leading-edge measurement standard to 4,260 cities around the world.
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t seems to be human nature to place greater confidence in anything that is bigger. When it comes to cities, a handful of the largest cities in the world receive significant amounts of attention while smaller cities carry on their work in the relative shadows.
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Rabat/Toronto, May 3rd, 2022 – The United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa) and CitiIQ, creator of an innovative global city measurement standard, announced today that 60 major African cities have been scored as a contribution to the Africities Summit being held in Kisumu, Kenya from May 17-21. Research shows that the continent of Africa will experience unprecedented population growth over the next 30 years with a dramatic urban surge expected to pressure its cities, large and small.
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The CitiIQ measurement system, providing quarterly scores for the 35 most important Considerations of a city, now includes a reporting feature indicating if a city is gaining or losing ground on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Advancing SDGs at a city level is crucial to achieving the UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development….
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CitiIQ collects daily COVID-19 data for more than 2,600 cities around the world and made publicly available at https://unhabitat.citiiq.com/. The site shows the wide range of differences between cities and communities, even as the aggregated data affirms the overall trend of increasing spread (see red bars in chart below). Over the last 14 days, the number of measured cities showing significant upward trending in cases (10% +) is outpacing those with significant downward trending at a 10:1 ratio.
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The provision of basic education represents an opportunity in a city to establish knowledge-based institutional patterns that support a host of other essentials. Learning and training is a means by which cities can create a depth of talent needed for their own function and for competitive advantage nationally and globally.
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Within the CitiIQ scoring system, Public Health is one of the most intricately woven themes – what we call Considerations. There is a good reason for this: health across a population reflects many things working in a consistent and coordinated fashion.
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Over the last 13+ months communities around the world have been asked to endure a range of difficult measures to stem the spread of the Covid-19, including limiting physical interactions….
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Early in the pandemic, UN-Habitat, a United Nations Agency, commissioned a global city COVID-19 tracking site available to anyone in the world. Monitoring over 1,600 cities, the data clearly displays the 14-day trends by city….
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Cities and communities have higher order characteristics that go beyond the individual elements or characteristics that make them up.
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