ICLEI World Congress 8-12 April, 2015
ICLEI World Congress, Seoul, Korea Every three years, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, an international association of local and metropolitan governments dedicated to…
Announcement: Citiscope launches Habitat III coverage
Citiscope launches major coverage United Nations “Habitat” conferences, the world’s pre-eminent venue to take stock of the condition and potential of today’s cities, occur…
Habitat III PrepCom 2, Nairobi April 10-18
The second session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) opens in Nairobi,…
Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
Sendai, Japan Leaders and experts from around the world gathered in Sendai, Japan, still recovering the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, for the Third…
Call for Papers, Future of Places Conference
Call for Papers Deadline extended to April 1, 2015 The Third Future of Places Conference 29 June-1 July 2015 Stockholm, Sweden The Future of…
Towards the Human City- re-inventing itself
Towards the Human City is Re-inventing Itself Like the cities they are visiting and documenting, Towards the Human City is transforming and growing rapidly,…
Why leave everything behind to document human cities?
We have heard many times that over 50% of the population lives in cities; in 2030 that number will become 60% and in 2050,…
Towards the Human City Series
Global Urban Commons is thrilled to announce a special series called Towards the Human City. Follow the stories of the Towards The Human City…
Inaugural World Cities Day
October 31, 2014 was the inaugural World Cities Day (#citiesday) , a new celebration of cities let by UN Habitat. It was the culmination…
“Big Ideas, Global Impacts” is the ACSP Conference theme
The theme of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 54th Annual Conference, October 30- November 2 in Philadelphia, PA, is “Big Ideas,…