Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map. But in November 2009, young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. “Another interesting example that shows how data can be […]
On the 8th of October 2013, UN-HABITAT in collaboration with Habitat Norway will host the seminar: “Youth and Urban Governance, including Land and ICT” at The House of Literature in Oslo. UN-HABITAT will also launch a report on the topic the same day. Already several months in advance, we have the […]
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 2010, 1.2 billion people were still living without it – 173 million of them in urban areas. In the West, […]
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 simplified set. Design by Synne Bergby.
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 and have a generation capacity of 500 megawatts, enough to met the electricity needs of the city Ouarzazate’s 1.5 million […]
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 take some from the United States,” said Pal Mikkelsen, in his office at a huge plant on the edge of […]
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 cities and the climate, and argues that cities are neglected in the discourse on how to both understand and tackle […]
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 Architecture and Design, hosted by Habitat Norway. THE ARCHITECT’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING URBAN VULNERABILITY AND DISASTER RESPONSE Is the profession […]
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 […]
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 […]