World Cities Day 2025

World Cities Day, designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 68/239, is widely known yearly on 31 October. It serves as a possibility to advertise the worldwide group’s curiosity in international urbanization, advance cooperation amongst international locations in addressing city challenges and contribute to sustainable city growth across the world.

This 12 months’s World Cities Day (WCD) focuses on selling good metropolis initiatives that put folks on the centre. The idea of a people-centred good metropolis goes past technological developments and digital innovation. It emphasizes evidence-driven decision-making, built-in city programs, and participatory governance to make city areas extra inclusive and sustainable.

The World Health Organization (WHO) joins UN companions and international stakeholders in commemorating WCD 2025 by highlighting the crucial position of city well being in placing folks’s well being on the centre of good transition in cities world wide.

To mark the event, WHO is launching a set of recent sources that present strategic frameworks, sensible steering, and capacity-building alternatives to assist combine well being throughout city coverage domains, selling extra complete and coordinated approaches to strengthen well being responses to rising megatrends and evolving coverage environments.