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Copenhagen – a smart livable and resilient city

21 June 2022
Ms. Lykke Leonardsen, City of Copenhagen's Head of Program for Resilient and Sustainable Cities, spoke about the city's work on adaptation and resilience and its journey to becoming a smart and resilient city. She shared Copenhagen's vision of working with all city stakeholders to co-create the…

Digital Resilient Cities: Smart Spatial Planning Systems

6 October 2020
This presentation discussed smart city planning solutions being used to address the most pressing urban development issues of our time.

Land Use Transport Interactions of High Speed Rail (HSR)

15 May 2020
Dr. Francesca Pagliara talks about her work on wider socioeconomic impacts of HSRs on mobility choices, mega cities, temporary offices, land prices and equity issues. Further, with her experience of co-editing two textbooks published by Springer on location choices, she shares insights about the…

Network Improvements in European Mega Cities through High Speed Rail

15 May 2020
This presentation talks about the positive effects of HSRs on economic growth, sustainability, and equity in European Mega cities.

HSR and Population Density

15 May 2020
This presentation discusses the improtance of Japanese HSR on new economic geography, population density, and size of cities. It highlights the need for experimental researches in measuring and understanding the impacts of HSR development.

Impacts of HSR on Land Use

15 May 2020
This presentation highlights the key challanges in modelling of the Land Use and Transport Interactions of High Speed Rails and emphasizes the lack of spatial resolution and need for multi-layer models to understand the land use effect of HSR.

Breakout Session Topic 2: Regulation of Private Recruitment Agencies

25 January 2019
Participants in this session work together to create a strategy and draw up a list of essential rules to effectively regulate private recruitment agencies.

PHOTOS - International Forum on Low Carbon Development for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program Cities

5 December 2018
Photos taken during the International Forum on Low Carbon Development for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program Cities.

Making the Demand Side of Freedom of Information Work

5 December 2017
In the United Kingdom, the passage of the Freedom of Information was a long and slow process. Maurice Frankel of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, UK, shares his experience in working on the United Kingdom’s campaign for FOI since it was set up in 1984. Prior to the FOI Law, a statutory…

Building Resilience/Adaptive Capacity through Social Collaboration in Community DRR and Learning Programs - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series

21 July 2017
Paul Ofei-Manu shares the underlying principles of social collaboration and case studies on initiatives that highlight good collaborative processes/practices