Cities Today launched as an app

Cities Today is now available as an app for iPad, Android tablets and Kindle Fire. The app can be downloaded free for a limited period and offers digital versions of the magazine with multimedia links to video and audio.

The app includes back editions of the magazine and a Chinese language version and further languages will be added.

Readers can access the app through the following links:

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cities-today/id654664185?mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maz.citiestoday

Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00D18VS5E

iPad users will get automatic updates when new content is posted through Newsstand on their desktop.

Symbols marked in text or on images indicate one touch buttons to access connected websites, video, page links and audio files (see list below).

By tapping the screen with two fingers on any page, users can highlight or clip text, graphics or photos and post these direct to their own social media sites or send by email direct from the app.

Cities Today is also pleased to announce that Roman Rollnick, former chief editor at UN-Habitat, will join its team. With a long career in journalism contributing to some of the leading newspapers in the world, Rollnick set up IRIN in 1997, the United Nations first regional information network in west and southern Africa. He has spent the last ten years working for UN-Habitat as an editor and speech writer preparing speeches for UN Secretaries-General Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan and for UN-Habitat Executive Directors Anna Tibaijuka and Joan Clos.  He worked as publications editor with a specialist focus on urbanisation and related development issues and launched Urban World magazine for UN-Habitat at the World Urban Forum in 2008.

“Cities Today is a leading resource for sustainable development helping cities and local governments to learn from each other and bringing in the intelligence and knowledge of other stakeholders such as business, the UN and development agencies,” said Rollnick. “I am pleased to be able to add my experience of working with the UN’s leading agency on urban affairs.”