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Public Health and COVID-19 in Cities 2020 has been one of the most difficult years for us, with the rapid and unfortunate spread of COVID-19. Cities that already experienced previous pandemics / epidemics, such as MERS and SARS, were already aware of the importance of...

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Redefining Urban Players The rise of the smart city expression in the early 2010s had a dramatic impact on the representation of the city as a global market, which resulted into the sudden apparition in the urban fabric of players coming from the ICT industry, like...

IGLUS is a global action-research and action-learning program aimed at urban executives, so as to help them to better govern – i.e., plan, operate, maintain, and renew – their metropolitan infrastructures, notably also thanks to the Information and Communication...

Due to recent and unfortunate Covid-19 pandemic, IGLUS, in consultation with its partner university, decided to postpone its Seoul module to take place in June, initially to August 2020. In the meantime, we will continue sharing our research with our members through...

Discover IGLUS Quarterly on African cities! African cities currently host 548 million inhabitants. By 2050, the urban population will have tripled, to reach 1.5 billion. These bewildering figures emphasize the magnitude of the challenges ahead in urban areas. It...

IGLUS established its first smart city lab in Gujarat, India, in partnership with Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) and Nirma University. Officially called IGLUS Center of Excellence (ICE), the lab will facilitate the knowledge transfer between partners...

Transforming Urban Landscape At IGLUS, together with our network of academics and practitioners, we are examining the various aspects of urban landscape transformation: How are cities reshaped to make them more resilient, productive, sustainable and ultimately,...

We are releasing the second IGLUS special report, discussing the economic sustainability of European business aviation airports! Due to capacity limits, major European cities built new airports slightly outside the city center. Remaining city airports and smaller...

Last month, Matthias Finger participated in the Sustainable urban infrastructure for liveable cities panel at MARUF. You can now access the full video here.