Helping you plan, design, and strategize to create better & more inclusive cities.
We are a nonprofit organization based in Canada committed to shaping healthier, more inclusive, and resilient cities through meaningful collaboration. To accomplish this, we produce events, create engagement opportunities, carry out actionable research, and disseminate knowledge through our editorial platforms, focusing specifically on housing, environment, mobility, and wellbeing.
Our vision is to bring all sectors together to spark innovative and future-proof solutions. To learn more about our formats and methods download the NewCities Deck.
We have a decade’s experience producing innovative content through events, partner-based projects, ongoing initiatives, and our editorial platforms.
Over the years, we organized 42 events in 22 cities. Our editorial platforms open the door to more than 1.000 published op-eds, articles, progressive texts penned by international experts and leaders. Our global network of members, whose insights help us determine the most pressing topics in cities, also adds great value to our work and enables us to stay current.
With the ongoing global pandemic, the team successfully shifted to online activities with three major virtual convenings, New Housing LIVE, Wellbeing Cities, and Higher Ground. We launched online webinars and webcasts such as The Big Rethink, examining the contours of the post-COVID city, attracting more than 11.000 participants worldwide.
Our recently launched threesixtyCITY podcast also gives voice to key members of the urban fields to listen on the go since 2021.
Our work is guided by global frameworks and compacts, such as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
While SDG 11: “Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” and SDG 17: “Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development” are incorporated throughout our work, we especially focus on the following SDGs within our focus areas:
HOUSING
SDG 9: “Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”
SDG 10: “Reduce inequalities within and among countries”
MOBILITY
SDG 5: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”
SDG 9: “Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”
WELLBEING
SDG 5: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”
SDG 3: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”
SDG 10: “Reduce inequalities within and among countries”
ENVIRONMENT
SDG 9: “Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”
SDG 13: “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”