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 […]
Habitat Norway is happy to announce that we will host a lecture with Prof David Sanderson, director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice in the department of architecture, Oxford Brookes University, 8 May in Oslo. More information on the event here. Read Sanderson’s take on architects’ role in […]
PhD Candidate at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Fortunatus Bahendwa, is set to defend his thesis, entitled Form Through Residents’ Practices: The unconventional transformation processes in suburban areas in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 7 May at 10.00. ‘The thesis explores and presents the residents’ informal urban practices […]
In April The World Bank published a new policy framework on urban development: “Planning, Connecting & Finnancing Cities – Now”. The framework is meant to serve as a tool for city leaders to stear planning of rapidly urbanizing cities towards resilient and sustainable development; Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities — […]
First seminar in the ‘Infrastructure 2013’ program took place 20 March at Internasjonalen, Oslo. The seminar was arranged in collaboration with FIVAS (Association for International Water Studies). Read more about ‘Infrastructure 2013’. Presentations were held by Jørgen E. Magdahl (FIVAS), Henrik Lindblom (Habitat Norway) and Petter D. Jenssen (Norwegian University […]
The next seminar on Infrastructure: 2013 will be focusing on Public Transport in urban ares. During the last decades, we have seen new solutions for making public transportation systems more efficient – but are they really efficient? “Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, has been touted by its proponents as something […]
Halving the number of people without access to safe water supply is one of the UN millennium goals to be met by 2015. But how to plan infrastructural systems and solutions for clean water facilities in marginalized urban settlements – often even absent from the city map? The M-maji application […]
In 2013 Habitat Norway will draw attention to infrastructure in cities today. A seminar series will be designated to discuss the challenges related to various types of infrastructure and how the lack of infrastructure in urban informal settlements affect people’s living conditions. Infrastructure in cities will also be the subject […]