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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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