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 […]
PhD Candidate at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Fortunatus Bahendwa, is set to defend his thesis, entitled Form Through Residents’ Practices: The unconventional transformation processes in suburban areas in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 7 May at 10.00. ‘The thesis explores and presents the residents’ informal urban practices […]
In April The World Bank published a new policy framework on urban development: “Planning, Connecting & Finnancing Cities – Now”. The framework is meant to serve as a tool for city leaders to stear planning of rapidly urbanizing cities towards resilient and sustainable development; Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities — […]
The first ‘Infrastructure 2013’ seminar was held 20 March in Oslo, looking at access to safe water and water managment in growing cities. Below you find the presentations held at the seminar (presentations from Jørgen E. Magdahl/FIVAS and Henrik Lindblom/Habitat Norge only in Norwegian). Nyliberale strategier for urbane vanntjenester – […]
Habitat report 2007: A Safe City is a Just City from HabitatNorway
First seminar in the ‘Infrastructure 2013’ program took place 20 March at Internasjonalen, Oslo. The seminar was arranged in collaboration with FIVAS (Association for International Water Studies). Read more about ‘Infrastructure 2013’. Presentations were held by Jørgen E. Magdahl (FIVAS), Henrik Lindblom (Habitat Norway) and Petter D. Jenssen (Norwegian University […]
The next seminar on Infrastructure: 2013 will be focusing on Public Transport in urban ares. During the last decades, we have seen new solutions for making public transportation systems more efficient – but are they really efficient? “Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, has been touted by its proponents as something […]
Halving the number of people without access to safe water supply is one of the UN millennium goals to be met by 2015. But how to plan infrastructural systems and solutions for clean water facilities in marginalized urban settlements – often even absent from the city map? The M-maji application […]
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 […]