From Buenos Aires to Tegucigalpa, IFC is working with municipalities to improve public transportation and tackle other urban challenges.

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Houstonians already know that the Bayou City is the most diverse in the country and a food destination gem. Now an international survey ranks Houston as the No. 7 best ...

How to prepare Latin America's workforce for a technological revolution.

Growth within the city limits, planning with greater equity and resolving violence are key for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

How to prepare Latin America's workforce for a technological revolution. How to prepare Latin America's workforce for a technological revolution.

The Business View – June 2017 / News You Can Use FDI released its American Cities of the Future 2017/18 in the April/May edition of the magazine. Mobile landed in the No. 3 spot in the Small…

Work isn’t exactly a new concept. By the sweat of your brow you will eat bread was Adam’s punishment in Genesis after all. What work looks like, though, has changed dramatically in the past century and even more so in the last decades. After moving from the fields to the factories, today’s workers have not only left behind the factory floor for the office, they are switching offices and jobs more frequently and redefining what an “office” looks like. For city administrators, the new face of work calls for new solutions to promote business development within their communities. At a meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors, the leaders of American cities from around the country heard about new ways to help build their area economies by focusing on creative spaces rather than courting industry.

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” — Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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