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Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund

19 September 2016
The Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund is intended to build the resilience of seven countries: Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Philippines, and Myanmar. Aside from funding projects on early warning systems, flood protection, and urban planning, the Trust Fund also aims to…

Regulating Transport Network Companies

14 September 2016
To address mobility concerns and ease traffic congestion in various cities and municipalities, the Government of the Philippines has recognized the need for new forms of transport services. It introduced transportation network vehicle service (TNVS) as a new public transport category. TNVS uses an…

Developing Sustainable Solutions for Urban Transport

14 September 2016
Development of a city is path dependent as choices are limited by past urban development efforts. As urbanization is far from over in many emerging countries, the key is to plan urban development in advance. It is also critical to work on both the whole transport system and urban planning at the…

Partnering for Social Accountability

2 September 2016
Around 60% of the world's youth population reside in the Asia and Pacific region, and this translates to more than 750 million young men and women with much potential. Unfortunately, they often do not have the opportunity to shape the cities they live in. This presentation by World Vision…

Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems for Smart Cities

26 May 2016
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are necessary in ensuring safe and efficient transport networks. The current ITS, however, tend to focus on data collection and technology and generally miss out the need to incorporate the welfare of the three crucial components: infrastructure, vehicles, and…

Sustainable Urban Development: Integrating across Sectors

23 May 2016
Ramola Naik-Singru discusses how to integrate sustainable urban development across sectors

Green Cities and GrEEEn Leaders: Viet Nam Stakeholders and Nguyen Van Cao

1 April 2016
Viet Nam's cities are going green as local leaders adopt the Green Cities approach. Learn more from this case study. Through ADB's Secondary Cities Development Program, Viet Nam is improving basic urban infrastructure in Buon Ma Thuot in the central highland region and the coastal cities of Ha Tinh…

The Greening of a City: Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project

31 March 2016
With the ultimate goal of making Seoul a great city, then-mayor Lee Myung-bak made Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project—the most expensive river restoration to be undertaken in the world—a centerpiece of his administration in 2002. Not only was the project extremely expensive, but the massive scope…

Water and Urban Development (Overview)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Water and Urban Development operations and the corresponding potential business opportunities.

Water and Urban Development (South Asia)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Water and Urban Development operations in South Asia and the corresponding potential business opportunities.