Urban Design and Development Center
Thailand’s Urban Design and Development Center (UddC) aims to restore and develop urban areas to create the healthy space, which research finding show that…
German Development Institute|Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik
The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is a leading thinktank for global development and international cooperation, located in Bonn Germany.
Beyond Rust, Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
“The twentieth-century story of metropolitan Pittsburgh is fascinating and instructive, and nowhere is it told as completely as Dieterich-Ward has done here.”—David Stradling, University…
Energy Africa Alliance – Solar power to light the way for Africa
Former UN chief Kofi Annan hails Energy Africa scheme as chance for continent to steer away from carbon-intensive practices of rich countries Kofi Annan,…
German Institute for Economic Research
The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) is one of the leading economic research institutions in Germany. Its core mandates are applied economic…
“Smart Cities” Pilot Program in Brazil
For the last two years a pilot project has been under development to transform the city of Águas de São Pedro, a small town…
Re-Framing Urban Inclusion in India
Re-Framing Urban Inclusion, a project of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, is a collaborative, multi-year research project, supported by the Ford Foundation, to develop a catalog of 36 original teaching and learning cases. These cases will give urban practitioners insights into policy realities and emerging forms of urban practice across India and the global South.
Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements
In the Commons blog, David talks more about his book, Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements,Shaping the Self-Constructed City, and the process he’s developed called Informal Armatures (IA), a simple working and design approach to foster the emergence of new informal settlements and accompany their sustainable evolution.
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.
UN Habitat University – Lecture Series
The Global Urban Lectures were launched in April 2014 as part of UNI’s mission to support the exchange of ideas between urban professionals, academics…