The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Priorities of Cities and Built Environment shared across countries, and the methods used to compare them. A global programme is a shared agenda, not a claim of global offices.
The Cities and Built Environment global programme is the shared agenda of priorities in the cities and built environment field that cut across countries, such as urban growth and land and municipal governance interface, with the methods used to compare them. It is an agenda, not a claim of global offices, and each element shows its status from the programme record.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
For global subject programme, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on night lights, population density and true-colour imagery with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on India; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.
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For global subject programme, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on night lights, population density and true-colour imagery with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on India; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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Settlement expansion and land use.
Housing systems and climate exposure.
Building performance and urban heat.
Urban journeys, transit and infrastructure.
Service access, exposure and inclusion.
Water, waste, electricity and communications.
| Process or body | What it sets |
|---|---|
| New Urban Agenda | Commitments on planning and housing |
| Making Cities Resilient 2030 | Resilience scorecard and city support |
| IPCC AR6 cities chapter | Assessed evidence on urban risk and adaptation |
| ISO 37120 and 37123 | City indicators |
Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Programme | A group of related projects and activities managed together to obtain benefits that managing them separately would not, in the sense the Project Management Institute's programme standard uses. |
| Results-based management | A management approach in which everyone contributing to a set of results makes sure their processes, products and services serve those results, and measures progress against them, as the UN Development Group handbook sets out. |
| Theory of change | A stated chain of causes from a programme's activities to its intended outcomes, used to plan evaluation. |
| Built environment | The human-made surroundings in which people live and work, including buildings, streets, utilities and public spaces. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.