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 […]
Presentation from the fourth ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 28 August in Oslo, on solid waste management and informal settlements that emerge in proximity to dumping sites. How is poor waste management affecting poor urban communities, the inhabitants’ health and the environment? What is the linkage between livelihoods and informal solid […]
Presentation from the third ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 12 June in Oslo, on access to electricity in informal settlements and growing cities. How is the daily life, the outlook of a more prosperous life and security affected by the lack of or insufficient and sporadic access to electricity? And are […]
Presentation from the second ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 24 April in Oslo, looking at the provision of public transport in growing cities. Below you find the presentation held by Malin Bismo Lerudsmoen from The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (In Norwegian). Hvorfor trenger vi offentlig transport? Malin Bismo Lerudsmoen, The Norwegian […]
Cateura is the name of the enormous landfill located in Paraguay’s capital city, Asunción. It is also one of South American’s poorest slums and home to the young members of the ‘Recycled Orchestra’, but instruments built from rubbish have given these children a new lease of life through music, and […]