World Cities Day
This year is themed people-centered smart cities aimed at showcasing how data-driven decision making, technology and AI can be used to improve urban life and recover from current shock and crises.
World Town Planning Day
This year is themed With Planning We Can! aimed at celebrating how good planning empowers communities and provides pathways to prosperity for all while shining a spotlight on contributions of planning.
Kampala City Festival
This year, the festival will be even more inclusive and celebrating the rich diversity of Kampala aimed at highlighting the importance of creative expression, sustainability, and culture as the city looks toward its future.
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Cities That Bounce Back
Cities are built on hope but tested by crisis.Earthquakes, floods, pandemics, fires, political unrest — these moments strip a city to its bones, revealing what truly holds it together. It’s not the steel of the skyscrapers or the concrete of the roads.It’s the...
Designing for the Next Generation
Cities are living organisms that are always growing and changing.But if you look closely, you will realize that the heartbeat of every city is its youth.They are the dreamers painting murals on forgotten walls, the coders designing new ways to connect, the activists...
Innovation and the Future of Urban Living
Every generation inherits two cities — the one it lives in and the one it imagines.Urban innovation begins when those two visions collide thus the frustrations of today spark the possibilities of tomorrow. The future of cities is not some distant dream of glass towers...
Public Spaces and Urban Life
Every city has a rhythm that rises from its parks and pavements.You can hear it in laughter spilling from a playground, the shuffle of traders setting up stalls, the quiet of someone reading in the park. These are not just empty spaces between buildings but lungs and...
The Quest for Inclusive Growth
Every city begins as a promise, a place where anyone, regardless of origin or income, can find opportunity and build a life.But over time, that promise has become unevenly distributed.For some, the city offers comfort and connection; for others, it’s a daily...
Rethinking Urban Mobility
Every city tells its story through movement.The morning rhythm of public transport, the slow crawl of traffic, the patient footsteps of pedestrians — all reveal how a city values its people. But somewhere along the way, most cities forgot that mobility is a human...