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Better Cities Feb 2025
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Better Cities | Feb 2025
Local Solutions, Global Impact
Mayors Forum of the World Cities Summit 2025
The 14th Mayors Forum of the World Cities Summit (WCSMF) will run from 2 – 4 July 2025, hosted by the City of Vienna, the 2020 Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize Laureate.
A flagship component of the World Cities Summit, the Mayors Forum is a global platform for mayors and city leaders to discuss pressing urban challenges and share the best practices.
Themed “Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Local Solutions, Global Impact”, the 2025 edition will see city leaders discuss resonating topics on affordable housing, reliable and efficient municipal services, urban energy transition and urban water management.
Liveability Framework: Part 6 – Collaborative Ecosystem
CLC launched the refreshed Liveability Framework (LF) at the World Cities Summit in June 2024. This is the sixth of a 10-part series on the LF that showcases its various components through bite-sized articles.
The nature of governance and citizen engagement in urban issues must evolve as residents’ needs, and the world in general, change. Accordingly, the Singapore government has made a conscious effort to move away from top-down approaches towards a more consultative and collaborative ecosystem of governance.
Source: Building Community Resilience (2022)
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A New Partnership For Knowledge Exchange and Collaboration
CLC and WRLDCTY Pte Ltd inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 12 February 2025 for knowledge exchange and international collaboration to advance the creation of endearing, distinctive and sustainable cities.
Signed by Hugh Lim, Executive Director, CLC, and representatives from WRLDCTY Pte Ltd – Director Christopher Fair and Managing Director Anupam Yog, the MoU will see collaboration between CLC and WRLDCTY Pte Ltd in areas like conferences and symposiums, joint research projects, studies and publications.
We look forward to the debut of WRLDCTY Pte Ltd’s global conference alongside the World Cities Summit 2026.
Urban Solutions #25: Resilience and Regeneration
This 25th issue explores how urban planning that is undergirded by regenerative design and development enhances cities’ climate resilience. Regenerative design is an urban development approach for high-density cities to remain highly liveable in a climate-changed and resource-constrained future. It allows cities to achieve co-benefits between multiple developmental objectives and needs, rather than having to make trade-offs. Thus, centred on regeneration, issue #25 examines key tenets of climate financing, carbon-sensitive design, and community engagement, reimagining the future of nature-centric, carbon-positive, and circular urban development.
Urban Solutions #25 | Building a Regenerative and Resilient Singapore: Perspectives from the Liveability Framework
Singapore’s growth as a city reflects a compact approach which balances quality of life with environmental and economic approaches. CLC’s Executive Director, Hugh Lim, and researcher Geraldyne How, explain Singapore’s strategy in building a regenerative and resilient city through the various aspects of the Liveability Framework.
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Urban Solutions #25 | A Community for People: Regeneration of Shanghai's 228 Neighbourhood
The rejuvenation of the 228 Neighbourhood on the Shanghai Yangpu District prioritised the 70-year-old area’s past and heritage, while infusing it with new functions, adapting to the increase in standard of living, growing urban population, and evolving cultural shifts.
Source: Shanghai AMJ Architecture and Urban Planning Co., L