Erik Berg, former Senior Adviser in the UN section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, writes in this month’s issue of Bistandsaktuelt, publication by The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), about cities and the climate, and argues that cities are neglected in the discourse on how to both understand and tackle […]
Wednesday 8 May professor David Sanderson, director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice in the department of architecture, Oxford Brookes University, gave a lecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, hosted by Habitat Norway. THE ARCHITECT’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING URBAN VULNERABILITY AND DISASTER RESPONSE Is the profession […]
Habitat Norway is happy to announce that we will host a lecture with Prof David Sanderson, director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice in the department of architecture, Oxford Brookes University, 8 May in Oslo. More information on the event here. Read Sanderson’s take on architects’ role in […]
THE ARCHITECT’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING URBAN VULNERABILITY AND DISASTER RESPONSE Is the profession trained to play a role in addressing the most pressing contemporary urban challenges? Guest lecture with Prof David Sanderson, director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice in the department of architecture, Oxford Brookes University. David […]
Gallery 0047, April 24, at 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 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´ infrastructure do these people […]
Av Henrik Lindblom. Mennesket kan overleve relativt lenge uten mat, men kun få dager uten vann. Det er en større andel mennesker som dør på grunn av mangel på rent vann enn det er mennesker som dør av AIDS, malaria og meslinger til sammen. Ifølge World Water Council mangler mer […]
Av Ivar Winther Byer utgjør ca. 2,8% av jordens overflate, og verdens befolkning flytter inn i byene. Rundt forrige århundreskifte levde om lag 180 millioner i byer. 1950 fantes det 2,3 milliarder, hvorav 500 millioner bodde i byer. I 2007 var det for første gang et flertall av byboere i […]
Av Odd Iglebæk (tidl styremedlem i Habitat Norge) Om femti år er det trolig over ni milliarder mennesker på jorda. Hvordan skal alle sikres tilstrekkelig med mat? I dag har verden nærmere sju milliarder innbyggere, og mindre enn halvparten bor på landet. Om femti år er vi sannsynligvis i overkant […]