Awards & Competitions

Mobility

New bus rapid transit system earns Dar es Salaam 2018 Sustainable Transit Award

Earning the award also means the Tanzanian capital will host a summit for world transportation experts next year.

Gregory Scruggs June 30, 2017

Environment

Imagining the ‘post-fossil fuel’ city

A competition sparks thinking about what a city without gasoline, diesel or coal looks, smells and sounds like.

David Hatch April 4, 2017

Disaster Preparedness

Resilient design competition for San Francisco Bay Area

A contest seeks ten “visionary, realistic, and replicable design solutions” to make a major metro area more resilient to climate change.

David Hatch February 7, 2017

Innovation

Knight Cities Challenge finalists tout pop-ups, toolkits

David Hatch January 17, 2017

Awards

Winners announced for 2016 Guangzhou Urban Innovation Awards

Neal Peirce December 9, 2016

Urban-Rural Connections

São Paulo wins Bloomberg challenge with idea to connect farmers and consumers

The Brazilian city joins Medellín and Bogotá, Colombia, Santiago, Chile and Guadalajara, Mexico as winners of the regional competition.

December 5, 2016

Awards

Eleven cities that are showing the way on fighting climate change

National plans to cut greenhouse-gas emissions are still coming together — and perhaps falling apart in the case of the U.S. But the winning cities of this year's C40 Awards are already making big progress.

Gregory Scruggs December 1, 2016

Citisignal

Urban innovation challenge for Bangladesh’s cities

The Dhaka-based charity BRAC is encouraging young entrepreneurs to dream up ideas for improving health, transit and employment.

November 9, 2016

Citisignal

Finalists for World Habitat Awards stress adaptable shelter

The World Habitat Awards selected a dozen finalists with innovative approaches to sheltering and employing poor urban populations.

November 3, 2016

Awards

UN-Habitat’s Joan Clos and architect PK Das honored with Jane Jacobs Medal

Gregory Scruggs October 18, 2016

Citisignal

New report takes stock of Bloomberg Mayors Challenge winners

Ten cities in the U. S. and Europe received big prizes for innovative ideas. In a new report, Bloomberg Philanthropies looks at what they learned.

October 5, 2016

Citisignal

New competition to help poor in U.S. cities

The Rockefeller Foundation is seeking scalable solutions on crime, pollution, education, inequality and more.

August 25, 2016

Citisignal

Knight Cities Challenge to award $5 million in third round

The urban innovation contest will focus on ways to help U. S. cities bolster talent, economic prosperity and civic engagement, the Knight Foundation says.

August 18, 2016

Citisignal

Santiago, Windhoek, Curitiba honored for sustainable transport

Parts of Chile’s capital are transforming into a walker’s paradise, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy says.

July 14, 2016

Cities News

Bloomberg ‘Ideas Camp’ heads to Bogotá

20 cities across Latin America and the Caribbean are finalists in a competition for ideas to make cities better.

Christopher Swope July 8, 2016

Citisignal

Knight Foundation awards $5 million for 37 experimental urban projects

The use of hip hop music and storytelling to engage urban residents are among the creative ideas to receive the foundation’s support.

April 14, 2016

Citisignal

Medellín wins prestigious city award

Medellín’s transformation from a violent haven for drug cartels into an urban innovator offers lessons for other cities, the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize says.

March 28, 2016

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