First seminar in the ‘Infrastructure 2013’ program took place 20 March at Internasjonalen, Oslo. The seminar was arranged in collaboration with FIVAS (Association for International Water Studies). Read more about ‘Infrastructure 2013’. Presentations were held by Jørgen E. Magdahl (FIVAS), Henrik Lindblom (Habitat Norway) and Petter D. Jenssen (Norwegian University […]
The next seminar on Infrastructure: 2013 will be focusing on Public Transport in urban ares. During the last decades, we have seen new solutions for making public transportation systems more efficient – but are they really efficient? “Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, has been touted by its proponents as something […]
Halving the number of people without access to safe water supply is one of the UN millennium goals to be met by 2015. But how to plan infrastructural systems and solutions for clean water facilities in marginalized urban settlements – often even absent from the city map? The M-maji application […]
In 2013 Habitat Norway will draw attention to infrastructure in cities today. A seminar series will be designated to discuss the challenges related to various types of infrastructure and how the lack of infrastructure in urban informal settlements affect people’s living conditions. Infrastructure in cities will also be the subject […]
Front page, World Report 2013, Human Rights Watch In the World Report 2013, Human Rights Watch takes a glance at human rights issues worldwide from the end of 2011 until November 2012. The report is an important account of the human rights situation, both through introductory essays and keynote […]
Av Henrik Lindblom. Mennesket kan overleve relativt lenge uten mat, men kun få dager uten vann. Det er en større andel mennesker som dør på grunn av mangel på rent vann enn det er mennesker som dør av AIDS, malaria og meslinger til sammen. Ifølge World Water Council mangler mer […]
Is there a link between urban planning and poverty alleviation? In the SLUM LAB project, Urban-Think Tank founders Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, brings planners, architects, and students from all areas of the globe to converge and to […]
In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation (Resolution A/RES/65/154). In reflection of this declaration, the 2013 World Water Day, which will take place on 22 March 2013, also will be dedicated to water cooperation. Therefore, UN-Water has called […]
‘The City is the Home of Prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a locus […]
Av Ivar Winther Byer utgjør ca. 2,8% av jordens overflate, og verdens befolkning flytter inn i byene. Rundt forrige århundreskifte levde om lag 180 millioner i byer. 1950 fantes det 2,3 milliarder, hvorav 500 millioner bodde i byer. I 2007 var det for første gang et flertall av byboere i […]