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”]

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 […]

Urban Refugees Colombia

URBAN REFUGEES Nær halvparten av verdens flyktninger lever i dag i urbane områder, i 2009 var tallet 5,5 millioner. Det gjør også i underkant av halvparten av verdens 27 millioner internt fordrevne eller Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Dette er kun tallene på registrerte flyktninger, de faktiske tallene må regnes å […]

Infrastructure 2013: Sanitation

Kulturhuset, 20 November, 19:00. The world’s population is moving to the cities. Cities in developing countries are growing especially fast. About one billion of the world´s 3,5 billion urban inhabitants are living in informal settlements, or slums. This number is expected to increase. What kind of access to the cities’ […]