Aerial view of Bogotá, Colombia, host city for WRI’s January 2025 convening on air quality and electric mobility. Photo: ...
Air pollution is one of the most serious environmental threats to human health worldwide. In 2021, it caused 8.1 million deaths, an increase from 7 million recorded in previous studies. In Africa, ...
Oslo’s City Ring Road after multimodal safety improvements. Photo courtesy of City of Oslo, Norway In 2015, the City of Oslo, Norway, made a commitment after years of rising transportation injuries to ...
People pass by a Tesla showroom in New York City. Rollbacks of federal incentives are creating an uncertain future for electric vehicle sales in the U.S. Photo: Elena Chertovskikh/iStock Momentum for ...
This is the third entry in the Urbanism Hall of Fame series, exclusive to TheCityFix. This series is intended to inform people about the leading paradigms surrounding sustainable transport and urban ...
The world’s great public transit systems: Tokyo’s Metro, London’s Tube, Hong Kong’s MTR…and Mexico City’s bus rapid transit corridors? Trains are often seen as the pinnacle of modern urban transport ...
This series, supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, discusses walking and cycling in cities with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries. Many cities have streets ...
The top 10 cities worldwide by number of dockless, shared micromobility operations are all located in Europe. France accounts for two of the top 10 cities with Paris, pictured above, and Bordeaux both ...
Walking is the oldest, most democratic way to get around. But as urban areas have become more sprawled, walking has slowly been suffocated by other modes of transport that are less healthy for both ...
The impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic are still being understood, but it does seem clear that this crisis will make a mark on cities, physically and socially, that will echo for generations. How ...
A new WRI guide sets out planning and design guidelines to help cities implement bike lanes quickly, effectively and safely. Photo by Hillary Swift Take the example of Paris, France, where mobility ...
In Belo Horizonte and Campinas, health workers are witnessing mounting heat-related impacts and the growing strain on their ability to provide responsive care firsthand. Photo: Roosevelt Cássio/WRI ...