Where A Billion People Still Live Without Electricity
According to a new report from the World Bank, 1.6 billion people gained access to electricity between 1990 and 2000, 70 percent of them in urban areas. But, as of […]
Habitat Norway launches new logo
We are happy to launch our new logo! The logo comes with English and Norwegian text, and with black and white letters and illustration. The logo also comes in a […]
Can cities rely entirely on solar power in the future?
It might be possible, as Morocco just launched the world’s largest solar power project. Middle East Online announced (2013-05-11) the breaking news. The project is expected to cover 3,000 hectares […]
Infrastructure 2013: Electricity
The world´s population is moving to the cities. Cities in developing countries are growing especially fast. About one billion of the world´s 3,5 billion urban inhabitants are living in informal […]
Oslo: A City That Turns Garbage Into Energy Copes With a Shortage
OSLO — A city that imports garbage. Some comes from England, some from Ireland. Some is from neighboring Sweden. It even has designs on the American market. “I’d like to […]
Byer og klima – den fortrengte utfordringen
Erik Berg, former Senior Adviser in the UN section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, writes in this month’s issue of Bistandsaktuelt, publication by The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), about […]
Presentation: Lecture with Prof David Sanderson, May 2013
Wednesday 8 May professor David Sanderson, director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice in the department of architecture, Oxford Brookes University, gave a lecture at the Oslo School of […]
Lecture with Prof David Sanderson
Habitat Norway is happy to announce that we will host a lecture with Prof David Sanderson, director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice in the department of architecture, […]
Lecture with Prof David Sanderson
THE ARCHITECT’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING URBAN VULNERABILITY AND DISASTER RESPONSE Is the profession trained to play a role in addressing the most pressing contemporary urban challenges? Guest lecture with Prof […]
Doctoral Thesis Defence: Fortunatus Bahendwa
PhD Candidate at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Fortunatus Bahendwa, is set to defend his thesis, entitled Form Through Residents’ Practices: The unconventional transformation processes in suburban areas […]
