By Paul Currie, Making of Cities. I wander through cities and hear them humming around me. They are creatures, machines, fixtures, breathers, parts and pieces, relationships, conduits, conductors, caretakers and crushers. Each city has its own sounds and its own energies that draw my attention and set the rhythm of my […]
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 […]
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