Season 3 of UN-Habitat Urban Lectures launches
UPCOMING URBAN LECTURE RELEASES: 29 January: Steffen Lehmann, architect and urban designer 12 February: Ana Falu, National University of Argentina, Cordoba 26 February:…
INVITATION: International Design Competition For Kenya
UN-Habitat in collaboration with Ministry of Land, Housing & Urban Development: Urban Development Department, Kenya, is looking for creative planning and design ideas for…
The New Urban Agenda must prompt planners to recognize informal labour
By Marty Chen, Citiscope Urban informal workers represent the broad base of the urban economy in most developing countries. On average, these account for…
Time to unlock rights to rural land?
South China Morning Post The mainland’s 900 million farmers will be on the lookout for rural land use reforms after a signal from the…
An Urban Fairytale by Saskia Sassen
After she likened the growth of modern cities to a monster devouring traditional neighbourhoods, The Guardian challenged the author and her son, artist Hilary…
Becoming Jane Jacobs, a new book by Peter L. Laurence
Penn Press, January, 2016 Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and…
Adapting from the Ground Up: World Resources Institute Report
Small businesses are critical yet often overlooked players in climate change adaptation. This report offers specific policy interventions for policymakers, climate finance providers, and large corporations to engage small businesses in adaptation efforts, enabling them to build their own resilience as well as the resilience of their communities.
C40 2015 Cities Awards
The 2015 C40 Cities Awards took place during the COP21 meeting in Paris. The awards specifically aim to share highly replicable ‘best practices’ across…
The State of Asian and Pacific Cities 2015 by UN-Habitat
The report, from UN Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) and ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Comission for Asia & The Pacific),…
Artists Are Building The World’s First Design Museum Inside A ‘Slum’
Want to find innovative thinking about cities and design? Look to slum dwellers, who have no choice but to be creative. A new mobile…