Looking back on #WorldCitiesDay, one idea stands out — cities should make daily life simpler and more connected.
A well-designed city lets people access services easily, travel safely, and find opportunity wherever they live. 🌍
#CitiesForAll #SustainableCities
At #WorldCitiesDay, leaders showed how AI and digital tools can bridge housing and service gaps.
The vision will continue at #WUF13 in Baku under the theme “Housing the world: Safe and resilient cities and communities".
Register and learn more: https://loom.ly/5E0d-3E
The Leadership Imperative: Managing Complexity for Healthier Cities youtu.be/cwgP_dpa9E4?... via
@theserfstv.bsky.social #WorldCitiesDay #UrbanHealth #HealthyCities #NCDPrevention #LeadershipForHealth
At the #WorldCitiesDay global observance in Bogotá, leaders highlighted that technology alone doesn’t make cities smart — people do.
The event also celebrated the Global Award for Sustainable Development in Cities, showcasing innovation that leaves no one behind. #UrbanOctober
The new Her City Guide is out! 🚀
Launched during #WorldCitiesDay, it strengthens inclusive, participatory urban development—starting from women’s and girls’ perspective.
📘 Download here: https://loom.ly/6LJiXu8
#HerCity
October 31 is #WorldCitiesDay! This year's theme celebrates people-centered smart cities, showcasing how data-driven decision making, technology, and AI can be used to improve urban life and recover from shocks and crises. 🏙️
#UrbanOctober #CitiesDay #UrbanSDG
From AI mapping to smart mobility, #WorldCitiesDay panelists showed how cities use tech to bridge housing, land & service gaps.
Smart cities work best when they put people first.
#UrbanOctober
#WorldCitiesDay
Today’s cities must be smart, inclusive and safe.
At the ICPC, we believe that when urban planning, data and citizen participation align, prevention thrives.
Together, let’s make our cities more human — and safer.
#SmartCities #SafeCities #Prevention
On #WorldCitiesDay, @who.int launches a new guide for decision-makers to meet the demand for integrated urban health solutions.
I call on leaders to adopt a more strategic approach to improve the health of billions of city-dwellers, & to make urban areas more livable, more just & more sustainable.
On this #WorldCitiesDay, I’ve been reflecting on what draws me to #cities and #urban life, and on an idea that has been circulating my mind recently: how #bellhooks definition of #love can enrich our understanding of what it means to plan, design and govern cities.
Putting #people at the heart of #cities, key to improving #urban life
#SustainableDevelopment #WorldCitiesDay #WorldCitiesDay2025
A busy European city street with people walking between shops and trams on a cool day. The image includes the text ‘#WorldCitiesDay’ and logos for the European Union and UrbanAIR, representing sustainable, people-centred urban development.
🏙️ #WorldCitiesDay 2025
When heat rises, city health becomes personal.
UrbanAIR is building people-centred smart cities where tech follows human need — helping Antwerp + Barcelona stay cleaner, cooler, and fairer.
Because resilience isn’t abstract. It’s shade, airflow, and time to act.
🌆 Urban wetlands face increasing challenges due to population growth and development pressures.
🏙️ Cities that manage their wetlands sustainably reap important benefits, including flood mitigation, enhanced biodiversity and improved recreational spaces. #WorldCitiesDay
Today on #WorldCitiesDay we reaffirm our commitment to building #cities where #health & #equity are at the heart of every decision
Join us at #ICUH25 (17–21 November in Wellington) as we shape healthier, more equitable, #people-centered #urban futures
Register now: icuh2025.org
#UrbanHealth
This #WorldCitiesDay, we join @un-habitat.bsky.social to celebrate cities that are compassionate, healthy & resilient - for people and animals.
Through our Positive Cities initiative, we're helping to create urban spaces where dogs, cats & humans can thrive together.
👉 positivecities.org
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More than 80% of deaths worldwide are from preventable diseases and injuries — but cities are acting.
Deputy Director Charity Hung of the Partnership for Healthy Cities explains: local action adds up to global impact.
#Cities4Health
Aspiramos a alcanzar ciudades inteligentes centradas en las personas. Esto es esencial para acelerar los avances en la implementación de la Nueva Agenda Urbana y la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. #WorldCitiesDay
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🏙️ Today is #WorldCitiesDay! This year’s theme, “people-centered smart cities,” showcases how data-driven decision making, technology, and AI can be used to improve urban life and recover from current shocks and crises.
Visualising globalised urbanisation on #worldcitiesday: Explore how cities operate within contemporary globalisation at gawc.lboro.ac.uk/gawc-worlds/...
#Dengue fever is spread by mosquitoes that thrive in #urban environments. On this #WorldCitiesDay, we add our voice to @WHO renewed call for strategic collaborations across #urbanization and #health!
www.who.int/teams/social...
Aerial view overlooking numerous tall buildings in downtown Chicago, with an expanse of Lake Michigan in the background.
As more of the world’s population shifts to city living, the work of scientists studying how air quality, groundwater, natural hazards, and so much more affect urban environments becomes all the more relevant. #WorldCitiesDay
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IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change & Cities—the first report of the seventh cycle—will be released in March 2027.
It will assess the latest science on climate impacts, risks, and urban solutions.
🗓️ Expert Review 17 Oct–12 Dec 2025 bit.ly/CitiER
Technology is transforming how cities are designed, managed, and experienced. This year’s #WorldCitiesDay, celebrated in Bogotá, Colombia, focuses on one essential question: how can innovation truly serve the people as more and more of them move to cities?
https://loom.ly/z0VOLeA
Cities are at the heart of political and humanitarian change.
In this #WorldCitiesDay episode of Urban Radar, we discuss the Green Party’s rise and what Gaza’s history reveals about rebuilding after conflict.
Listen: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/green...
"Stories from the Future" brings together 15 young women from 11 countries to imagine 2055. For #WorldCitiesDay, we're highlighting girls' vision for the future - stories that show what is possible when we centre girls' voices: plan-international.org/publications/stories-fro...
🌆 On #WorldCitiesDay, we’re launching Where We Live — a #YouthMappers10 campaign to map heat risk worldwide. 🧭 Every building traced helps reveal thermal hotspots and guide cooling strategies.
💡 You can’t cool what you can’t see.
👉 www.youthmappers.org/where-we-live
🌍On #WorldCitiesDay we celebrate 353 #UNESCO Learning Cities across 78 countries, empowering 390 million people to learn throughout life. These cities foster a culture of lifelong learning that drives inclusion, innovation & growth.
👉 Learn more: https://shorturl.at/x8JaJ
Happy #WorldCitiesDay! Did you know: there are biodiversity #biobanks all over South Africa, from the biggest cities to the most rural areas to the wilds of our national parks. Basically: Wherever there's #biodiversity, there's a BBSA biobank.
Meet some of them here: bbsa.org.za/meet-the-bio...
Cities shape our sustainable and resilient future. On #WorldCitiesDay, we reflect on how smart, inclusive, and accessible urban development can improve lives, foster equity, and build communities that thrive in the face of climate and social challenges.
#SustainableCities
