Habitat International Coalition’s Primer on the Indispensable Process and Content of the International Conference on Housing and Sustainable Human Settlements Development (2016) [spiderpowa-pdf src=”http://habitat-norge.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Habitat_III_BasHICs_brief_final.pdf”]
I 2050 vil verden ha drøye ni milliarder innbyggere og ca. sju milliarder vil bo i byer. Vil dette bety en fornyelse av byen som maktsentrum? Får vi en økt todeling mellom de som har og de som ikke har? Trendene er klare: fattigdommen urbaniseres og feminiseres. Mennesker fortrenges fra […]
Photo: The Economist Medellín, Colombia’s second city, has become a destination for mayors and urban planners across the world to study the city’s “radical urban makeover with a redistributive purpose where the best projects were reserved for the poorest, most violent areas” – also named the “Medellín miracle”. In this […]
URBAN REFUGEES Nær halvparten av verdens flyktninger lever i dag i urbane områder , i 2009 var tallet 5,5 millioner. Det gjør også i underkant av halvparten av verdens 27 millioner internt fordrevne eller Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) . Dette er kun tallene på registrerte flyktninger, de faktiske tallene må […]
The Graduate School at Arts, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, invites applications for a joint 3-year PhD scholarship in Building Futures: The Making of African Cities starting on 1 September 2014. The candidate who is awarded the scholarship must commence his/her PhD degree […]
PLAN 1/2014, Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, bolig og byplan og regional utvikling, retter søkelys mot uformelle bosettinger og byutfordringer i sør. Habitat Norge har vært med i planlegging av nummeret og bidratt med en rekke artikler som summerer noen av hovedpoengene fra vår seminarserie ‘Infrastructure 2013’. Medlemmer av Habitat Norge får […]
In the face of failing sanitation systems, the residents of Mathare are taking matters into their own hands. Nairobi, Kenya: A group is gathered around a leaking sewage system, armed with long wooden sticks, spades and rakes. Some wear protective gloves and gumboots, but many do not. Inserting long sticks […]
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Habitat Norway is proud to announce that we will premier Urban-Think Tank’s new documentary ‘Gran Horizonte’ 9 October at Kulturhuset, Youngstorget, Oslo. Habitat Norway is co-funding this documentary. Gran Horizonte: Around the Day in 80 Worlds A new documentary from U-TT Films and Chair Brillembourg & Klumpner at ETH Zürich […]
Rio de Janeiro is about to become the first smart city in Latin-America, according to the article “Tomorrow’s cities: Rio de Janeiro’s bid to become a smart city”, published the 9th of September 2013 in BBC News”. A project, co-ordinated by Unicef in collaboration with the local non-government organisation CEDAPS […]