Sustainability

Without transparent, inclusive governance and community engagement, smart cities may not be all things to all people, especially marginalized groups.

The guide shares valuable lessons learned from across the sector, resources to start new initiatives, and ideas to inspire others to make a bigger impact.

The UNECE people-smart sustainable city concept has its efforts directed at sustainability and focused on generating a harmonious society and improving quality of life. This means reducing gaps in capacity and efficiency, meeting social needs and making cities more conducive to innovation. Review examples of cities under KPI evaluation by UNECE.

Canada's ambition for this goal is to ensure Canadians have access to quality housing, and live in healthy, accessible, and sustainable cities and communities. Learn more about Canada's strategies to build sustainable cities and communities here.

The U4SSC thematic groups develop action plans, technical specifications, case studies, guidelines and offer policy guidance for cities to become smarter and more sustainable while accelerating their digital transformation. Review their latest publications here.

The Centre for Urban Transformation advances public-private collaboration in cities to enable more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient communities and local economies.

Driving innovative sustainability and climate solutions by transforming communities, cities, and factories.

UN-Habitat is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. Read the latest research and publications here. E.g. SDG Cities - Canada Country Report 2024

UN projections show that the world’s rural population has already stopped growing, but the world can expect to add close to 500 million urbanites in the next 15 years, and 2 billion by 2050. How the world meets the challenge of sustainable cities will be intimately tied to the urbanization process and directly impact its success. Read the latest research and publications here.

Transport data and statistics are crucial to underpin sound policy making. The ITF Statistics Team ensures data compliance with international recollection and processing standards. This work allows comparison and benchmarking of transport performance across ITF member countries.

This resource offers low-income, minority, tribal, and overburdened communities approaches that can guide development to respond to their needs and reflect their values.

Local and regional governments are at the heart of community development. Making our cities and communities inclusive, sustainable, safe, and resilient makes our countries inclusive, sustainable, safe and resilient. The fabulous array of tools, resources, and stories captured in this guide could not arrive at a better time.

This package supports efforts to adopt the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for developing community-level solutions to global challenges.

FSC publishes rigorously peer-reviewed, cutting-edge research on a broad range of topics, from engineering and urban studies to social sciences, with a focus on achieving sustainable living processes within future urban landscapes (in line with SDGs)

The IJUPSC is a peer-reviewed journal for researchers, academics, practitioners, and emerging scholars to publish their established results and new insights within the field of urban planning and digital transformation of cities. Triple sustainability of urban innovations (i.e. social, economic, and environmental sustainability) is the core of this editorial initiative.

The SCRD Journal is committed to an international perspective of the Smart City concept, promoting articles in all areas of the concept, such as: Smart Governance, Smart Environment, Smart Economy, Smart People, Smart Mobility, Smart Living and Smart State, and making them widely available through open access publishing.

The Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities is to be the primary, high-quality resource for dissemination of research on integrated and sustainable building equipment and systems (ISBES) for individual buildings, as well as urban centers.