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Why we need to tax urban land and property?
Shahrukh Wani, Economist at IGC’s Cities that Work initiative, presented at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi on the importance of land and property taxation in Pakistan.
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Fighting COVID-19 in cities: Perspectives from the Cities that Work council
On 10th June 2020, the Cities that Work Council came together to discuss evidence and experience on the city-level response to COVID-19. This video shows highlights of this meeting.
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Changing behaviour in Freetown: Human waste
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of Freetown discusses how the city is using both technology and incentives for citizens to change attitudes toward sanitation.
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Changing behaviour in Freetown: Property revenue
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of Freetown, discusses how the city is using geo-mapping tools to improve the collection of property rates revenue.
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Building city resilience: Data lessons from Cape Town
Hugh Cole (Director of Policy and Strategy, City of Cape Town) discusses how the city used innovative techniques to respond to a crisis in water supplies.
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Traffic management: Data lessons from Lagos and Kampala
Traffic congestion can cost working time and be detrimental to a city's productivity. Biodun Otunola (CEO Planet Projects, Lagos) and Andrew Kitaka (Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Authority) discuss how data can be used to improve traffic management in developing cities.
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Video: Urban management: Data lessons from Amman
Reham Bataineh, Head of Local Plans Division for the Greater Amman Municipality, discusses Amman's transition from using a manual data system to a geographical one and how it has helped evidence-based decision making in the city.
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Creating successful data systems: Data lessons from Cape Town
Craig Kesson, Executive Director for Corporate Services at the City of Cape Town, discusses the city council's experience of improving their use of datasets for the benefit of the city.
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The potential of cities in Pakistan
Shahrukh Wani, Cities Economist, speaks with Dr. Ali Hasanain, Assistant Professor of Economics at LUMS, on the potential of cities in Pakistan and how increasing their efficiency can boost the economy exponentially for Pakistan@100's first skype podcast. Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and the World Bank Pakistan have partnered on a series of outputs and...
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Kabul: Identity, legitimacy and governance
What roles do cities, with their youthful populations, play in developing a sense of identity and legitimacy in fragile contexts? This panel takes Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan and the fifth fastest-growing city in the world, as a case study to examine how urban contexts and actors can support, or undermine, national stability by providing a dense spatial context...