Rio de Janeiro is about to become the first smart city in Latin-America, according to the article “Tomorrow’s cities: Rio de Janeiro’s bid to become a smart city”, published the 9th of September 2013 in BBC News”. A project, co-ordinated by Unicef in collaboration with the local non-government organisation CEDAPS […]
World Habitat Day Conference 2013 – Infrastructure 2013: Communication 7 October at the House of Literature Oslo How is Information and Communication Technology (ICT) serving as infrastructure in cities? And how does ICT contribute to bridge the gap between the formal and informal city, and further contribute to development and […]
Presentation from the fourth ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 28 August in Oslo, on solid waste management and informal settlements that emerge in proximity to dumping sites. How is poor waste management affecting poor urban communities, the inhabitants’ health and the environment? What is the linkage between livelihoods and informal solid […]
Presentation from the third ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 12 June in Oslo, on access to electricity in informal settlements and growing cities. How is the daily life, the outlook of a more prosperous life and security affected by the lack of or insufficient and sporadic access to electricity? And are […]
Presentation from the second ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 24 April in Oslo, looking at the provision of public transport in growing cities. Below you find the presentation held by Malin Bismo Lerudsmoen from The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (In Norwegian). Hvorfor trenger vi offentlig transport? Malin Bismo Lerudsmoen, The Norwegian […]
“Structuring Settings + Setting Structures: Anchoring Frames of Freedom with Geometry and Memory” Building cities in India is perhaps more diverse than anywhere in the world. It has a population of 1.3 billion, scattered over subcontinent of extreme climatic variations, geographies, and histories. Today, India is undergoing an epochal transformation. […]
Photo courtesty: kiwanja.net WORLD HABITAT DAY – INFRASTRUCTURE 2013: COMMUNICATION New information and communication technology as infrastructure in growing cities and informal settlements. Digital information and communication technology have become a necessary infrastructure of the urban environment today. For the inhabitants of informal settlements and urban poor, new mobile technology, […]
Cateura is the name of the enormous landfill located in Paraguay’s capital city, Asunción. It is also one of South American’s poorest slums and home to the young members of the ‘Recycled Orchestra’, but instruments built from rubbish have given these children a new lease of life through music, and […]
Many youth groups in the slum communities of Nairobi, Kenya, run garbage collection services. Their goal is to create a clean and healthy environment for all – and to uplift the youth. Are you interested in this topic, come for our next seminar that will focus at solid waste management […]
Kulturhuset, 28 August, 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’ […]