Are you an urban practitioner, architect, or urban planner working in a local municipality or government in Latin America and the Caribbean (from an IDB member country) who works in the field of urban development and/or sustainable architecture? The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the City of Vienna and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance invite you to apply for a … [Read more...] about Vienna Calling: A residency on innovations in urban development
Sarah R. Benton
Sarah R. Benton is an Urban Planner with the Housing and Urban Development Division and has been supporting the IDB’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities program since January 2015. She has helped coordinate the program in Belize City, Belize; Nassau, The Bahamas; Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Bridgetown, Barbados. She has professional experience in international planning education programs; foreign language education; real estate; and urban planning research and practice. Before coming to work at the IDB, Sarah earned a Master’s Degree in Urban & Regional Planning and a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies, both from the University of Florida. Her specializations were in sustainable development and planning technologies such as GIS, and her research interests focused on the intersection of citizen security with housing and the built environment. Sarah speaks Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese in addition to her native English.
IDB Cities Lab: multiplying urban innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean
With more than 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions in the world. Never before have so many people lived in urban centers and never before has it been so necessary to improve the way we understand, plan and manage cities as collective human projects. The increased scale and number of cities bring a whole array of new … [Read more...] about IDB Cities Lab: multiplying urban innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Actions for sustainable urban development in Belize City through the year 2050
Last time I blogged about how a city can transform stranded assets, like cemeteries and abandoned properties, into magnets for urban regeneration. The new flavor of the week is “canals”. Belize City is located at the mouth of the Belize River and Haulover Creek, a location that early settlers perhaps chose due to its importance for the then-booming timber trade because it … [Read more...] about Actions for sustainable urban development in Belize City through the year 2050
Sustainable development action plan for Belize City
What do cemeteries, canals, and coconuts have to do with sustainable urban development? Follow this new 3-part blog series and you’ll find out. Using the example of Belize City, one of the 70+ cities in the Emerging and Sustainable Cities (ESC) program, you’ll see how one municipality is making moves towards sustainable development in areas such as neighborhood revitalization, … [Read more...] about Sustainable development action plan for Belize City