Lecture with Prof David Sanderson

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 […]

Infrastructure 2013: Public Transport

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 […]

Infrastructure 2013: Water

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 […]

Krigene urbaniseres

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 […]