Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements
We are in urgent need of new tools to deal with the processes of informal urbanization. It is mandatory to understanding informality not only as a marginal phenomenon but as mainstream city making and an integral part of hybrid cities in which the formal and the informal can co-exist and interact in a beneficial manner. My recent publication Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements: Shaping the Self-Constructed City is an attempt to move in this direction.
$2.2M to Rice’s Kinder Institute for HERC education research
Rice University’s Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) has received $2.2 million from the Houston Endowment and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to explore new areas of education research in the Houston Independent School District (HISD)
Uganda hosted its first Urban Development Conference
Africa City and Urban Development Conference: Although only 14 percent urban in 2009 it is expected that by 2050 Uganda will be amongst the most urbanized countries in Africa with 70% of the population in urban areas.The Uganda Vision 2040 was launched in 2014, to guide the socio-economic development of East Africa’s third largest economy.
ULI has new Global Chairman
Randall K. Rowe, Chairman of Green Courte Partners, LLC, a private equity real estate investment firm based in Chicago, has been named the new…
Climate Summit for Local Leaders at COP21in December
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, and Michael R. Bloomberg, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, announced today that they will co-chair the…
Global Network on Promoting Digital Technologies for Sustainable Urbanization
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has launched the Global Network on Promoting Digital Technologies for Sustainable Urbanization. The new network was…
InSite Conference in Prague – A Shared City
The reSITE Conference in Prague is hosted by reSITE, a group founded to suppot collaborative and innovative initiatives to improve waterfronts, public spaces and…
New deadline announced for Habitat III ‘policy units’ recommendations
Stakeholders have until 24 June to propose individuals and organizations for a mechanism that will have a substantial role in drafting the New Urban…
Future of Urban Innovation: Startups Summit
On June 9, The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce Department, Cornell University and Columbia University hosted the Future of Urban Innovation: Startups Summit…
Habitat III ‘issue papers’ provide backbone for New Urban Agenda
The United Nations has made public the final thematic reports offering a comprehensive, expert-level view of the processes of urbanization that characterize today’s century…