Past Projects

NewCities has helped shape the urban narrative since 2010. Browse through an archive of our past work, press, and network of contributors. 

Projects & Programs

Financing Urban Infrastructure Initiative

Apr 28, 2017

Globally, cities face a major investment gap in funding infrastructure projects. According to McKinsey Global Institute, US$57 trillion will be required to finance global infrastructure between 2013 and 2030.[i] Most of those needs are in cities that are growing at an unprecedented rate. We launched the Financing Urban Infrastructure Initiative to directly address this major…

Impact KAEC Challenge

Apr 27, 2017

This Challenge brought 5 candidates from top engineering, architecture and design, and urban planning graduate schools from around the world to spend one week in October 2015 in King Abdullah Economic City, offering them a unique in-depth look into KAEC’s strategies, priorities and challenges. At the end of the week, candidates were given one main…
Events

NewCities Summit 2017

Apr 27, 2017

The NewCities Summit gathered top entrepreneurs, policymakers, corporate leaders, designers and thinkers to work together to improve life in cities. The sixth edition of the Summit took place in Incheon Songdo, South Korea from June 7-9, 2017 on the theme Thriving Cities: The Building Blocks of Urban Wellbeing. The new city of Incheon Songdo has…
Events

Jakarta Urban Challenge

Apr 26, 2017

  The Jakarta Urban Challenge was a USD $20,000 contest championing the most effective solutions to mobility and traffic problems in Jakarta, one of the world’s most congested cities. NewCities and Connect4Climate came together ahead of the NewCities Summit 2015 in Jakarta to launch a challenge that would tackle this urgent problem by seeking out…
Projects & Programs

Online & Underground

Apr 25, 2017

We live in hyper-connected cities: how many offer Internet access in the subway? In partnership with the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), our Founding Member Ericsson and innovation agency FABERNOVEL, we surveyed the world’s largest metropolitan underground systems to find out their level of internet connectivity. Find out which regions are the most connected…

Urban E-Health

Apr 24, 2017

The WHO defines E-Health as “the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health”*. In 2012, we set up a Task Force to investigate the potential of e-health technology in cities. Our Task Force assessed the economic, social and clinical impacts of using e-health technology in an underserved urban area. We conducted our pilot…