Feb 01, 2019
Pune, India 202019 Category Winner Economy and Opportunity The Lighthouses of Pune is a sustainable livelihood program for urban disadvantaged youth, aiming to foster workplace competencies and enhancing skills that will allow the pursuit of a meaningful career. Each of the 15 ward offices in Pune will have a Lighthouse center, where a holistic approach…
Feb 01, 2019
Kigali, Rwanda 2019 Category Winner Public Health The Kigali Car Free Day is a bi-monthly event designed to encourage a healthy lifestyle. City residents are asked to leave their cars at home to encourage greener living, physical activity, and neighbourhood interactions. In addition, free screening and testing of non-communicable diseases are offered on this day…
Feb 01, 2019
Lisbon, Portugal 2019 Category Winner Sustainable Environment Based on the framework of the EU’s Sustainable Development Strategy, the Lisbon Environmental Action Plan has been designed to address an overall vision of an urban green transformation and a liveable, creative, healthy and innovative city. For example, under this plan, they promote making spaces safer and more…
Jan 16, 2019
Wellbeing Cities Award 2019 – Meet our 16 Finalists Bogotá, ColombiaProject: Ciclovía Bogotá’s initiative Ciclovía is a multi-sectoral community program aimed at decreasing inequality and addressing socio-economic problems, public health, and environmental issues. On every Sunday and public holiday, they free up space on the main streets of Bogotá from motorized vehicles, creating “the largest…
Oct 03, 2018
Wellbeing Cities 2020 Edition Jury Joan Clos, Former Mayor of Barcelona and Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat Robin Chase, Founder, Zipcar Thakur Singh Powdyel, Former Minister of Education, Government of Bhutan Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA Renato Galliano, Director of the Department for Urban Economy and Labour,…
Aug 24, 2018
NewCities organized a Learning Expedition in Columbus, Ohio on October, 23-24, 2018. This Learning Expedition, hosted in partnership with ENGIE, was the first installment of “New Urban Champions,” an initiative that invites medium-sized cities to share exemplary approaches to economic, social and environmental development on a global learning platform. Our agenda in Columbus showcased successful…
Jun 29, 2018
Since 2016, NewCities has recognized trailblazing startups and social enterprises creatively applying technology to tackle pressing urban challenges. Our GUI community leads the worldwide conversation on cities and innovation by introducing new ideas and tools for achieving impact at the urban scale. Startups committed to improving city life face a unique challenge: finding the sweet…
Jun 29, 2018
Whitepaper: brought to you by CoMotion, The Rideshare Guy, and NewCities. Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft have ushered in a new wave of mobility that has reshaped the transportation fabric of cities across the globe. What started as a novel way to hail a ride with an app is now a multi-billion dollar…
Jun 29, 2018
Eco-Counter is an international organization with a passion for using data to encourage more bike and pedestrian activity to better citizen health and a cleaner environment. From New York City to San Francisco, Montreal to Paris, planners around the world trust Eco-Counter to take their project on step further. Since 2015, Eco-Counter has released the…
Jun 29, 2018
French below Positioning exercise of Avenue McGill College Located in the heart of Montréal, the Avenue McGill College area is in full swing with the redesign of Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, the arrival of the Metropolitan Express Network downtown and major private investments in Place Ville-Marie and the Eaton Centre. In April 2018, the city announced…
Jun 29, 2018
The preeminent catalyst for new ideas, networking, resource development, and collaboration for new city leaders, the Greenfield Cities Alliance (GCA) is the leading global network of large greenfield urban developments around the world. It is an initiative of NewCities. The goal of this initiative is to create a setting to share best practices and generate…
Apr 29, 2017
We launched the Connected Mobility Initiative with support from the Toyota Mobility Foundation to address the critical need for metropolises worldwide to find viable mobility solutions of the future. The year-long Initiative produced an in-depth report outlining public sector-led innovation around connected transportation, with the aim of distilling lessons for transport officials and offering insight…
