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’ […]
Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map. But in November 2009, young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. “Another interesting example that shows how data can be […]
On the 8th of October 2013, UN-HABITAT in collaboration with Habitat Norway will host the seminar: “Youth and Urban Governance, including Land and ICT” at The House of Literature in Oslo. UN-HABITAT will also launch a report on the topic the same day. Already several months in advance, we have the […]