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Addressing urban environmental issues for cities that work for people and planet

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Urban Matters blog

Informal settlements (slums)

Head and shoulders photos of five peple. Text: Podcast episode 20. And Make Change Happen

Can mitigation deliver better cities in the global South? Make Change Happen podcast episode 20

19 December 2022

Five people posing with signs that read "gentrificado"

What does queer have to do with it?

Began June 2022

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City planning with displaced communities: the benefits of inclusion

06 December 2022

Houses can be seen inside a sealed, glass bottle on its side.

Wellbeing in refugee camps: life inside a bottle

Boel McAteer
06 December 2022

Informal housing

Interviews: co-creating pathways to urban equality

23 November 2022

People gathering around a table with a laptop

Civic media for housing rights: lessons from struggles against evictions in São Paulo and Lagos

August 2022 - February 2025

A view from high up of a city with tower blocks, framed by the sky.

Can global reporting bring about transformation?

Alexandre Apsan Frediani and Camila Cociña
12 October 2022

Related collections

Learn more about focused areas of IIED's urban work

Better cities are possible: achieving resilient, low-carbon and inclusive urban development

A series of articles looking at ways to achieve resilient, low-carbon and inclusive urban development

The transition to a predominantly urban world

A series of blogs and interviews exploring what social, political and environmental factors cause cities to thrive or decline

Urban crises and forced displacement

A programme of work bringing together diverse perspectives on humanitarian emergencies and forced displacement, to inform new directions in urban crisis response

Housing justice

A programme of work producing knowledge and methodologies for housing policy and initiatives that promote wellbeing and sustainability in cities of the global South

Publications

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Towards housing justice

21271iied.pdf

City planning with displaced communities: the benefits of inclusion

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From risks to resilience: action research into informal workers' health and wellbeing in Indore, India

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Prioritising action on health and climate resilience for informal workers

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Better cities are possible: responding to the twin crises of climate change and inequality

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The Urban Crises Learning Fund evaluation final report

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Doing more with less: COVID-19 relief by community networks in Southeast Asia

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Scaling up community-led COVID-19 responses: five key lessons

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The contribution of cities to local and planetary health - equity, ecosystem services and nature

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Amplifying grassroots COVID-19 responses in Kenya

Informal housing piled on a hill

The favela of Rocinha: decades of struggle have led to a rich political – and cultural – landscape

Blog, 22 March 2023

View of a city with traditional housing and two skyscraper in the distant background

Asia’s fastest growing cities… and why these are mostly small cities

Blog, 09 March 2023

People queue in front of a desk

From risks to resilience for informal workers – part two: ‘universal’ access to benefits?

Blog, 22 February 2023

Aerial view of housing with metal roofs, palm trees and a river

Environment & Urbanization Better Cities Day

Event on 16 March 2023

Aerial view of a flooded city with destroyed housing and infrastructure

Connecting decarbonisation and social justice in cities

Active Project

Woman wearing a face mask sits on the floor and handles tools

From risks to resilience for informal workers – part one

Blog, 07 February 2023

A cow and two goats eat grass surrounded by waste. There are houses and people in the background.

Why does so little aid seem to go to basic needs? – part two

Blog, 24 January 2023

Dirt and dirty canal next to a field. Informal buildings in the background

Are basic needs given low priority in most bilateral aid programmes? – part one

Blog, 10 January 2023

Head and shoulders photos of five peple. Text: Podcast episode 20. And Make Change Happen

Can mitigation deliver better cities in the global South? Make Change Happen podcast episode 20

Article, 19 December 2022

Man types in a laptop, in front of a big screen

Data tales – part five: ‘not so smart’ computing?

Blog, 08 December 2022