
Multiple professors, researchers and students work on SDG 11 at the Graduate Institute. Their work includes academic and policy-oriented publications, events and research projects. We also offer Executive Master degrees in Environmental Governance, and Development Policies and Practices, and an academic Master degree in Development Studies.


Urban Safety and Peacebuilding: New Perspectives on Sustaining Peace in the City

How Can Energy-Pricing Reforms Be Socially Sustainable?

Gangs Project Public Launch

The Emerging World: alternatives that can change everything

Improving the Protection of Persons with Disabilities during Armed Conflict

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Global Comparative Ethnography

We Are the Nobodies: Youth, violence and drug dealing at the urban margins

International Organisations and Cities: An Accelerating relationship Reshaping Both?

The Impact of COVID-19 on Cities

Sustainable Food Consumption, Urban Waste Management and Civic Activism
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Goal 11 aims to improve urban planning and management which is needed to make the world’s urban spaces more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. The UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform stresses that “rapid urbanization has brought enormous challenges, including growing numbers of slum dwellers, increased air pollution, inadequate basic services and infrastructure, and unplanned urban sprawl, which also make cities more vulnerable to disasters”. Read more about Goal 11.