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A just transition

By Naji Makarem 02 February 2023 News Category: Thought Leadership A just transition is perhaps the most important fuzzy concept we must...

Local Action Towards Climate Resilience in Urban Areas

An additional 2.5 billion people will be a part of our world by 2050, mostly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across Africa...

Why the Smartest City Solutions Put People and Environment First

There is a lot of hype around the term ‘smart city’ and its definition can be ambiguous. At UrbanEmerge, we refer to smart cities as...

Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks could Employ Hundreds of Thousands of Young Women

While working in Ethiopia recently I witnessed first-hand the phenomenal transformation the county is bringing about through attracting...

Green Urbanism in Asia: How Hangzhou in China is making Impressive Progress

In their great book ‘Green Urbanism in Asia’, Peter Newman and Anne Matan suggest that green urbanism is the recognition that cities make...

Friendships matter for urban economies

The culture and social structure of a metropolitan region is as important as it’s physical architecture and infrastructure, if not more...

The rise & fall of urban economies

In our recent co-authored book, Michael Storper, Tom Kemeny, Taner Osman and I investigate the income divergence of two advanced...