Medellin wins World City Prize

Medellin, Colombia has beaten off 38 other cities to be named as the winner of the biennial Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize, which is awarded by the Singapore government.

Although the city's transformation has been widely recognised, the Nominating Committee wrote in a statement released to Cities Today, that the city has built upon this in the last several years.
"Within a span of just two decades, Medellin had overcome challenges of uncontrolled urban expansion, and transformed itself from a notoriously violent city to one that is being held up as a model for urban innovation," the statement reads. "Since being named a Special Mention City of the 2014 prize, Medellin has made further im...