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Cities in Asia and the Pacific need to scale up investments in resilient infrastructure amid increasing climate and disaster risks.
Start resilience projects with people-centered, evidence-based planning, combining infrastructure, community engagement, and adaptive learning.
A study shows reducing involuntary migration to peripheries of the Greater Seoul Area requires policy interventions to regulate housing cost and supply.
Public spaces help revitalize a city’s environment, culture, tourism, and economy.
Urban planners in Seoul shifted from paper-based processes to a computerized system to improve information sharing and decision-making.
Ecosystem-based adaptation solutions can reduce vulnerability and build resilience of urban areas to climate change.
Asia's rapid urbanization requires the balanced and holistic development of second-tier cities and towns to release pressure from congested megacities.
Project interventions evolved to create a virtuous cycle in water services, using performance-based contracts, participatory planning, behavioral change campaigns, and institutional reforms.
Progressive urban governance and planning reforms are required for cities to deliver the economic and social benefits of urbanization.
The Republic of Korea tackles the challenge of revitalizing old neighborhoods while preventing the side effects associated with gentrification.