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What has been your experience on the Urban Gateway in April?
Nerisa Kamar - Mon 6 May, 2013

Share with us your experience with the Urban Gateway in the month of April 2013.

What has been your experience on the Urban Gateway in March?
Edna Osebe - Tue 2 Apr, 2013

Share with us your experience with the Urban Gateway in the month of March 2013.

What has been of most interest to you on the Urban Gateway in 2013?
Edna Osebe - Tue 19 Feb, 2013

Share with us features or content that has been of most importance to you so far in 2013.

What was your experience with the Urban Gateway in December?
Edna Osebe - Fri 21 Dec, 2012

Share with us your highlight on the Gateway in the month of December.

What was your experience with the Urban Gateway in November?
Edna Osebe - Fri 30 Nov, 2012

Tell us your highlight on the Gateway in the month of November.

What was your highlight of the Urban Gateway in October?
Edna Osebe - Fri 2 Nov, 2012

Share with us your experience with the Urban Gateway in the month of October.

What are some of the barriers to accessing affordable energy services among informal settlements?
Kennedy Muzee - Thu 11 Oct, 2012

Drawing from your regional experience, you can respond to this question.

What is your impression on the second day of WUF6?
Edna Osebe - Wed 5 Sep, 2012

What do you think of the World Urban Forum? Kindly give your views on this.

Comments on the first day of WUF6 are available at this link!

What is your impression on the first day of WUF6?
Edna Osebe - Mon 3 Sep, 2012

What do you think of the World Urban Forum? Here is what some participants said on the first day of the Forum.

What is your view of the new features of the Urban Gateway?
Edna Osebe - Fri 17 Aug, 2012

The Urban Gateway has seen tremendous growth and developments in the recent past. More features are now available to promote a global discussion on how to manage our towns and cities better in a rapidly urbanising world. Have your say on their effectiveness and usability.

Are there a set of building standards for a Cote D'Ivoire affordable housing project? If so where could i find them?
Harry Letton - Thu 12 Apr, 2012

Good Afternoon,

My name is Harry and I am searcing for Building standards, in the Cote D'Ivoire, that will be eligible for a mortgage.

Land Assembly Methods
Christopher Galea - Thu 19 Jan, 2012

I am Christopher Galea and I am writing to you in my capacity as a planning officer in the local planning agency in Malta. I have been instructed to prepare a paper on land assembly for the consideration of the local government with a view of introducing land readjustment methods in Malta.

How can the governments in developing world enhance the upgrade of urban poor settlements?
Anthony Kuria - Thu 15 Dec, 2011

While low priority to urban shelter is a burden of access to the urban poor, I wonder how the governments' in evolving sphere will recognize the urgency of upgrading poor urban settlements!  We all know that a number of economic, social, administrative and political factors are to blame for these constraints, but the starting line has to be drawn on when the actual initiation has to begin. In most cases priority is given to the productive sector, while investment in the urban industrial sector is encouraged.

How may an interested university become involved in the HPUI?
Michael Martin - Mon 5 Dec, 2011

I am an urban planning graduate student at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas USA.  I am eager to become involved in the HPUI, however I am not aware of the procedure.

Texas A&M is a land grant university with an elaborate extension service offered at the state level.  I am interested in extending the extension service to offer urban planning expertise at both the state and international levels.  

User Management: What comments, queries and/or suggestions do you have based on the training?
Edna Osebe - Mon 3 Oct, 2011

Please feedback on your experience with the Urban Gateway as the Introductory Training progresses.

What have you planned for World Habitat Day this year?
Edna Osebe - Tue 27 Sep, 2011

Have you planned any event to celebrate World Habitat Day this year? Please share your ideas and events.

Did urban issues play a part in the London riots earlier this summer?
Edna Osebe - Tue 27 Sep, 2011

No one really knows what made the London riots kick off. Could better urban environments have prevented them?

How can the Urban gateway be useful to the youth in informal settlements?
Edward Lodenyo - Mon 26 Sep, 2011

With poor access to internet technologies how can the youth in informal settlements be reached using the urban gateway.

Tackling HIV/AIDS and gender issues through urban planning?
Ben Harvey - Fri 2 Sep, 2011

I am working for the Government of Zambia and my colleagues and I are preparing for some capacity building/sensitisation programmes with District Councils. We are trying to ensure that HIV/AIDS and gender issues are fully integrated into urban planning processes. This includes strategic development planning and also in dealing with applications/proposals for new developments.

Que temas consideras de mayor importancia para tratar en el XV Congreso Nacional de Planeación SAI 2011?
Rafael Forero - Fri 12 Aug, 2011

Espacio virtual para el intercambio de ideas a manera de foro permanente pro-congreso!