New urban agenda
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Introductory remark – Erik Berg
23.11.2015 – Informasjonsmøte om Habitat III og “New Urban Agenda “Dear participants, friends and colleagues; As interim chair of Habitat Norway I would like to welcome you to this meeting – a particular welcome to our guests from abroad – Ana and Eduardo Moreno. For the first time in history […]
Habitat III Basics
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”]
Informasjonsmøte 23 november: FNs nye urbane agenda og Habitat III konferansen
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 […]
The “Medellín miracle”
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 […]
PhD scholarship in the field of Building Futures: The Making of African Cities
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 […]
Why Wait in the Queue? How Kenya’s Slum Dwellers are Reclaiming their Toilets
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 […]
Live streaming of the Habitat Conference 2013
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Evening event 9 October: Gran Horizonte by Urban-Think Tank
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 […]
New and smart technologies in Rio de Janeiro
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 […]