"Urban space is public and democratic like air and water, until it is cut up and privatized. All of us are responsible to protect the public realm.” - Elizabeth Diller (DS+R) at the #UrbanAgeDebates. Read the debate summary 👉ow.ly/3CuA50EE9LM Photo credit: Iwan Baan

If you wouldn't build your house like this, why would you build your city this way?

Did you know that Edinburgh, Athens, and Porto are some of the European cities people most wish #mobility to go #carfree? 🚲🌇 Together, we can push for new transport policies that benefit all of us! 🤝

If this wasn’t ‘social engineering’ then nothing is

Damrak, Amsterdam 1970 & 2010

Urban scale & highway scale.

Observing public spaces… how just our cities are ?

What does it take to move a thousand people?

Excited to be in Floriade 🇳🇱 for the Water-Energy-Food nexus conference! ♻️

Today we kicked off our #RCitiesConvening in Athens for EME & AFR regions. Our network has grown in the last 2 years with amazing support from our member cities & CROs! Here's to celebrating our partners & co-creating a resilient future together. #CROsinAthens #RCitiesinAthens

Happening now!👏 Our #RCitiesConvening in Athens with EME & AFR cohorts! Sessions & workshops designed to 🤝Create a learning environment to exchange best practices 🌍Showcase the impact of urban resilience planning approaches all around the world #CROsinAthens #RCitiesinAthens

Are your streets for cars or for people? Just because the answer is cars right now, doesn’t mean you can’t change that if you really want to. This Tel Aviv transformation before & after between 2016 and 2021 is well documented by Thomas Schlijper’s great photography. #StreetsForPeople

Social interactions between neighbors on light traffic streets are far higher than streets where cars are dominate. So let’s build streets for communities and not cars!

Structural car dependency Source: buff.ly/2vXxIzL

A great first day at #COP27 elevating #cityvoices and #citystories. Our ED Lauren Sorkin shared some of the innovative steps that cities are taking to enhance livability, reduce food waste and enhance resilience at the #SingaporePavilion.

We must unlock finance to build resilience before climate related shocks and stresses hit our cities and communities. Honored to moderate a discussion on #resilience #finance with #Ekhoshuei Iyahen, David Howden, Robin Levy & Maaz Tanveer today at the Resilience Hub COP27.

Great to have Chief Resilience Officer Dr. Dania Folayinka @LagosResilience at #COP27 to showcase #urbanresilience solutions from #Lagos. Follow our event schedule for the latest updates: resilientcitiesnetwork.org/events/cop27/ #CitiesSolveCitiesDeliver

Arnoud Molenaar Hans Gehrels Eleni Myrivili Penelope Komites-Valadares🎗#🟦 Noémie Fompeyrine Lina Liakou Dana Omran Leon Kapetas Nadine Burbar Nilofer Tajuddin Arup UK Resilient Rotterdam Resilient The Hague Resilient Greater Manchester

Never forget, multimodal streets (aka “complete streets”) are simply more efficient, because they move, hold & serve more people within the same space. Whether you think streets are just for moving people, or are for a LOT more, they’re just better. Via NACTO #citymakingmath

Thank you to everyone who joined the Cities Solve, Cities Deliver event at @NYWaterWeek today! We are beyond grateful to convene so many cities & allies to share how #CitiesSolveCitiesDeliver & how we can support them in accelerating #WaterAction.