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 […]
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 […]