October 7-8th The City of Malmö, INTA (International Urban Development Association) and NCN (Nordic City Network) in cooperation with IFHP (International Federation for Housing and Planning) invited a number of selected participants to a preconference on “Liveability” in Malmö. The seminar in Malmo is part of a series of seminars […]
[spiderpowa-pdf src=”http://habitat-norge.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Final-report-Kick-off-meeting-Habitat-Norway.pdf”]Final report Kick off meeting Habitat Norway
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are you interested in following the Habitat Conference live?
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 […]