Less than six months after the commencement of the Indian Housing Project in the North of Sri Lanka, several home owners have already completed reconstructing their houses.
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Wed 6 Mar, 2013
Cities are driven by and depend upon formal and informal land markets. A city’s land market is both a barometer of its success and of its problems. In South Africa, where most urban residents do not enjoy access to safe and secure land, the way in which the urban land market operates is a crucially important determinant of how, or whether, poor citizens can improve their circumstances.
Posted by:
Ed Kerry
- Wed 6 Mar, 2013
- Author(s):
Mark Napier / Stephen Berrisford
The challenges facing the Toronto region are well known and well documented. In many respects, they are similar to the challenges affecting almost all city-regions in North America: infrastructure deterioration and deficits, traffic congestion, urban sprawl, economic development, environmental stewardship, growing economic inequality, and insufficient affordable housing.
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Edna Osebe
- Tue 5 Mar, 2013
- Author(s):
Anne Golden
Kenya's set progress of urban development was highly threatened in the wake of violence following the hotly contested presidential elections of 2007. The violence shook Kenya's national identity to the core. More than 1,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands displaced and the country's infrastructure - which is so critical to the region's stability -...
Posted by:
Ed Kerry
- Fri 1 Mar, 2013
- Author(s):
Loren Treisman
A city can be boring, repetitive and grinding at times. It's the same old routine every day, a miserable day. But hey there is no need, it can be so different. Just think, it could be this exciting world of your own. A park, an ocean a dolls house. And then the city turns into an adventure playground, a huge entertainment park.
This is just how Fernando Livschitz for BlackSheepFilms imagined...
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Edna Osebe
- Thu 28 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Fabian Neuhaus
This is the point we have come to in much of the developed world: The freedom for a child to walk out the door and skip rope or play catch is something that has to be scheduled, organized, and officially permitted.
"That was my first thought after watching the video below on the website of Playing Out, a wonderful initiative based in the United Kingdom that encourages neighborhoods to open...
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Thu 28 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Sarah Goodyear
Making cities safe for women and girls
The World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty is focusing on how to tackle violence against women and girls in public spaces
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: this is not happening in my backyard.
Posted by:
Prabha Khosla
- Wed 27 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Michelle Bachelet
Leading mortgage financier, Housing Finance in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology have today launched a nationwide campaign targeting to train 1 million artisans by 2016 through its newly formed Housing Finance Foundation.
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Edna Osebe
- Tue 26 Feb, 2013
Urban design students at the University of Saskatchewan are drafting up some original ideas for one of Saskatoon's most iconic landmarks, the Traffic Bridge.
The city closed down the rusting 106-year-old structure connecting the Nutana neighbourhood to downtown Saskatoon due to safety concerns in August 2010.
The new ideas range from having a pedestrian-only bridge to putting up a zip-line...
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Ed Kerry
- Tue 26 Feb, 2013
Copenhagen is an inspiration to many cities around the world that are changing their urban design to become biking cities. Each year, it eliminates 90,000 tons of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere from the sheer number of cyclists versus cars.
Designing cities with bicycles in mind reduces emissions, commute times, urban sprawl and illness. More cities are looking to bike-friendly...
Posted by:
Ed Kerry
- Wed 27 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Kristen Avis
The city of Portland is looking at a new system that will generate hydropower without environmental impacts to fish and stream flows. Portland-based Lucid Energy Inc. designs turbines that generate electricity from water flowing through city pipes.
Lucid has proposed to install a unique set of hydroelectric turbines inside the city drinking water line at SE 147th and Powell.
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Tue 26 Feb, 2013
Ahmedabad-based Abellon Clean Energy Ltd and Mumbai-based A2Z Maintenance will build two green power projects in Ahmedabad by using urban waste for generating electricity!
The plants would get urban waste from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and take about two years to complete the project. The corporation will also provide land at a concessional rate and earn an annual fee from the private...
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Edna Osebe
- Tue 26 Feb, 2013
In 2012 Europeans generated approximately 265 million tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW). A mountain of urban waste that is rising year after year caused by growing volumes of packaging and food disposed by our households. With the World Bank predicting that global generation of MSW will rise from the current 1.3 billion tonnes/year to 2.2 billion tonnes/year by 2025, the annual cost of solid...
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Edna Osebe
- Tue 26 Feb, 2013
A shopkeeper in New Delhi is doing his bit to help raise children out of poverty by setting up a makeshift school underneath a railway bridge.
Most of the pupils who attend the morning classes come from nearby slums and would normally go out looking for work to support their families instead of going to government-run schools.
Watch the video at this link.
Source: BBC
Posted by:
Ed Kerry
- Mon 25 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Rupa Jha
As part of its project on the cities of the future, the BBC asked a series of experts to explain their vision of where they would like to live in the future.
With input from those who are planning new cities to people who are retro-fitting old ones and even a child's view of the future, they asked one simple question: 'What if you could design a city from scratch?"
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Fri 22 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Jane Wakefield
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