The EU Urban Agenda | European Parliamentary Research Service
Recognizing the importance of urban issues and the challenges cities increasingly face, a debate on an urban agenda of the European Union started with…
UN Reaches Consensus for Sustainable Development Goals
Citiscope.com NEW YORK — A marathon weekend negotiating session reached the finish line on Sunday, August 2, 2015 as 193 U. N. member states reached…
Crafting an Urban Agenda (UN Issue Papers): Social Cohesion & Equity
As part of the global conversation about a new Urban Agenda, UN Habitat has put out Issue Papers, focused on 22 research areas divided…
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.
$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)
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…
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…
The Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
The Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University is a semi-independent interdisciplinary organization, named in honor and recognition of Philip Lindy and his…