City Collab

Combining our passion for #cities & #storytelling to help organisations working in urban development craft the right messages and maximize their reach & impact.

[Vani Herlekar @vani_h]

Always humbling and inspiring to listen to citizens and elected representatives working at the #grassroots to solve pressing challenges facing our cities. Thank you @mahilahsg for this opportunity to moderate this panel with women community leaders and councilors. #Governance.

[City Collab @City_Collab]

Popular perception often shapes how we engage with urban policy and view actors involved in urban development. In this video, @mnolangray explores the trope of ‘the dastardly developer - forever ruining cities and hiking rents’

https://t.co/MFD8o1dub2

#popculture #urbanism

[City Collab @City_Collab]

On this #WorldDayforSafetyandHealthatWork sharing this set of resources we produced with @WIEGOGLOBAL and @mahilahsg documenting strategies to make home based work environments safer, healthier and more productive.

#homebasedworkers #knowledgeresource

https://t.co/8x6T3PQgLt

[Vani Herlekar @vani_h]

We collaborated with @WIEGOGLOBAL, @mahilahsg to develop knowledge tools to advance dialog on homes as workplaces improving habitats in urban poor settlements. Thanks @MartyChen16 for the opportunity to present insights from this work at @HarvardGSD.

https://t.co/UvHNGu2Bqs

[Ratna Gill 💎 @Ratna_Gill]

1/3 of all women workers in India are home-based.

Professor Martha Chen of @WIEGOGLOBAL introduces @vani_h of @City_Collab & @Bijalb_15 of @mahilahsg as they present at @HarvardGSD on their work to gain recognition of the home as workplace, as it is for so many women.

[WIEGO @WIEGOGLOBAL]

Home-based workers need:

- Access to water 💧 & sanitation & electricity💡
- Safe homes 🏠
- Property rights 💪

On this #HomeBasedWorkersDay, don’t miss our thematic briefs📄 developed with @mahilahsg & @City_Collab about the challenges they face: https://t.co/If2LkdSNou

[Marty Chen Empower Informal Workers @MartyChen16]

World Poverty Day - The COVID-19 pandemic recession pushed millions more people into poverty. The pandemic recession also eroded the livelihoods of the majority of the 2 billion informal workers. Supporting the recovery of informal workers is a key pathway to reducing poverty

[WIEGO @WIEGOGLOBAL]

The poor quality of habitat🏠 has a direct bearing on the productivity of home-based workers as well as their health & well-being.

Don’t miss our thematic briefs📄 developed with @mahilahsg & @City_Collab about the challenges they face: https://t.co/If2LkdSNou

[Bijal Brahmbhatt @Bijalb_15]

The documentation employs a three-pronged strategic framework:
1) Improving the physical environment
2)Promoting energy efficiency & climate resilience
3)Incorporating the needs of the #homebasedworkers in city plans and policies
@mahilahsg @WIEGOGLOBAL @HomeNetInt @City_Collab

[City Collab @City_Collab]

We partner with diverse organisations in urban built environment sector and help them advance knowledge, engagement and action towards improving quality of life in #Indiancities. Stay tuned as we share insights from our work as part of the #urbanoctober campaign. #SDG11 @vani_h

[City Collab @City_Collab]

Poor quality of habitat has a direct bearing on the productivity, health and well-being of #homebasedworkers. We collaborated with @WIEGOGLOBAL to capture insights from @mahilahsg's work in improving quality of habitats in poor settlements.
#UrbanOctober
https://t.co/8x6T3PQgLt

[WIEGO @WIEGOGLOBAL]

Did you know that home-based workers spend most of their incomes💸 on energy for lighting, cooling, heating, & powering home-based livelihoods?

Read our thematic briefs📄 developed with @mahilahsg & @City_Collab: https://t.co/If2LkdSNou

And follow @HomeNetInt🏠 #WorldHabitatDay

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Super excited to finally share this updated analysis on the countries most responsible for climate change, now including all sources of CO2:

US 509GtCO2
CN 284
RU 172
BR 113
ID 103
DE 88
IN 86
UK 74
JP 68
CA 65

1/n

https://t.co/5PlQMZRhyR

[City Collab @City_Collab]

We are so proud to partner with @mahilahsg and @WIEGOGLOBAL to bring out insights on ‘Making Home based environments safer, healthier and more productive’ and help them advance advocacy and action around issues of #homebasedworkers.
#WorldHabitatDay

[WIEGO @WIEGOGLOBAL]

Home-based workers need:

- Access to water 💧 & sanitation & electricity💡
- Safe homes 🏠
- Property rights 💪
- To be included in the city plans 🌆

This #WorldHabitatDay, learn about home-based workers’ demands 💪 https://t.co/2AeqiolqMA

@mahilahsg @HomeNetInt @City_Collab

[Mahila Housing Trust @mahilahsg]

.@Bijalb_15 elaborates on how infrastructure and access to services affects physical and financial health of urban poor, perpetuating women’s unpaid labour
Do check this thread & entire piece by @aditimurti for @citizenmatters
@WIEGOGLOBAL @hnsa_2016 @City_Collab
@JanhaviDave

[City Collab @City_Collab]

#𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧! 𝐈𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 #𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬.

#synth#synthesis #buildingarguments

[Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford]

Of course, all else is never equal! This the most compelling counterargument: that there are inevitable tradeoffs between drivability, walkability, and other aspects of livability. They're hard tradeoffs.

[Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford]

So, let me clarify and correct this tweet.

1. Cities should be designed taking into account the immense value of cars, but not “designed for cars” or “around cars”, if that is taken to mean excluding other things we want to optimize for…

https://t.co/fwudCagOCo

[Mahila Housing Trust @mahilahsg]

Congratulations @MuniRosario for winning the grand prize!
And Congratulations, @LDN_environment @DistritoTec @Kounkuey for the incredible work you do!

#PrizeforCities #UrbanChangeMakers

[WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities @WRIRossCities]

Congratulations to the grand prize winner of the 2020-21 #PrizeforCities: Sustainable Food Production for a Resilient #Rosario! 🎉🎊

@MuniRosario’s urban agriculture program has increased #FoodSecurity for residents & climate #resilience in tandem https://t.co/852ztgCpvP