Promoting a global discussion on how to manage our towns and cities better in a rapidly urbanising world
Category: Land Management
Category: The Planning and the “Unplanning” of Urban Space 1913 to 2013: Privatised Urban Development and the Role of Municipal Governments in South Africa
[Document] - Posted by: Tony Wolfson - Mon 20 May, 2013 - Author(s): Tony Wolfson, Dr Paul Hendler
There is much talk today in policy circles about "transforming urban space" to make our cities both more efficient and equitable, i.e. (...)
Category: 4th Asia-Pacific Housing Forum
[Event] - Posted by: Alice DeSagun - Sat 18 May, 2013
The Asia-Pacific Housing Forum is a biennial conference organized by Habitat for Humanity. (...)
Category: Finalistas Premios Mundiales del Hábitat 2013: soluciones de vivienda centrada en las personas
[News] - Posted by: Mariana Gallo - Fri 17 May, 2013 - Author(s): , Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF)
Una auténtica selección de buenas prácticas en vivienda se encuentra en los finalistas de los Premios Mundiales del Hábitat, 2013, anunciados hoy (17.05.13).
Los diez finalistas de los Premios, financiados y coordinados cada año por la BSHF, han sido elegidos entre más de 200 proyectos de todo el mundo e incluyen proyectos sobre personas sin hogar, el acceso a la energía limpia en zonas rurales y gestión de servicios por las comunidades, tanto como la restauración y la vida sostenible en ciudades.
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Los diez finalistas de los Premios, financiados y coordinados cada año por la BSHF, han sido elegidos entre más de 200 proyectos de todo el mundo e incluyen proyectos sobre personas sin hogar, el acceso a la energía limpia en zonas rurales y gestión de servicios por las comunidades, tanto como la restauración y la vida sostenible en ciudades.
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Category: SKYE BANK GRANT: VOTE 4 CHILD & GREEN on May 27th...Please !!!
Posted by: ABORISADE ADETOLA - Thu 16 May, 2013 - Author(s): , Aborisade Adetola Ayoola
SKYE BANK CHILDREN DAY GRANT: i am appealing to the change makers on this platform to massively vote for Child & Green Foundation on 27th of May 2013.. (...)
Category: Infrastructural Voids in Congested Cities
[Document] - Posted by: Joaquin Mosquera - Mon 6 May, 2013 - Author(s): Joaquin Mosquera
Infrastructural Voids are empty spaces inside city congestion that have the peculiarity of having enough scale and proximity with dense city to be extremely relevant and, at the same time, that are completely underused as places of chaos, disorder and general infrastructures.
They are the symbols of present congestion, precisely because they are some of the only existing remaining free spaces in high-dense cities.
They are a consequence of fast-urbanization processes, and their relevance could be enormous if well understood and managed, mainly by public institutions.
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They are the symbols of present congestion, precisely because they are some of the only existing remaining free spaces in high-dense cities.
They are a consequence of fast-urbanization processes, and their relevance could be enormous if well understood and managed, mainly by public institutions.
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Category: Urban and Rural Development in South Asia
Interactive forum to generate dialogue and debate on the future development of urban and rural areas of South Asia
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Category: International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, Vol.1.2(2013)
[Publication] - Posted by: Zhenjiang SHEN - Sat 27 Apr, 2013 - Author(s):Editorial introduction
Special issue on "Low carbon city in Asian Cities"
Guest Editors:
Guangwei Huang1 and Zhenjiang Shen2
1 Sophia University, Japan 2 School of EnvironmentalDesign, Kanazawa University, Japan
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Category: Cátedras del Milenio en Bogotá!
[Event] - Posted by: Rafael H Forero H - Tue 23 Apr, 2013
El Sistema de Naciones Unidas en Colombia, El Fondo para el Logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio(F-ODM- MDG-F) y la Fundación Universitaria San Martín le invitan a asistir a la Cátedra del Milenio a realizarse los días 25 y 26 de abril de 2013, en la sede de la ciudad de Bogotá: carrera 19 Numero 80 – 63. (...)
