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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PLAN 1/2014, Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, bolig og byplan og regional utvikling, retter søkelys mot uformelle bosettinger og byutfordringer i sør. Habitat Norge har vært med i planlegging av nummeret og bidratt med en rekke artikler som summerer noen av hovedpoengene fra vår seminarserie ‘Infrastructure 2013’. Medlemmer av Habitat Norge får […]
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’ […]
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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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 […]
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 […]