State rescaling and the making of city-regions in the Pearl River Delta, China
Abstract. This study empirically tests the theory of state rescaling with a study of recent city-region making in China. The implementation of two interjurisdictional…
UN Habitat Sri Lanka REBUILDING HOMES, TRANSFORMING LIVES – YouTube
The Indian Housing Project is a housing reconstruction project funded by the Government of India and implemented through a Memorandum of Understanding with…
Sheela Patel – The Federation Model of Community Organizing (Slum Dwellers International)
In the past two decades through a process called “Enumeration” through which the members collect at city level data about slums, Slum Dwellers International…
Institute of Urban and Regional Development
IURD conducts collaborative, interdisciplinary research and practical work that reveals the dynamics of communities, cities, and regions and informs public policy. IURD focuses on…
Stakeholders concerned over access to Habitat III negotiations
Worries focus on new rules governing this year’s urbanization conference — and push back on suggestions that those guidelines are the most progressive ever…
Unlocking Access to Energy Data; President’s Better Buildings Program
On January 29, as part of the President’s Better Buildings Program, the Administration announced: 18 utilities, serving more than 2.6 million commercial customers, will…
What Farmers Really Need – Water
By Chandhi Singh, Indian Institute for Human Settlements Gowramma is a slightly intimidating, enterprising woman, and a panchayat member in a village in the…
MetroLab Network
MetroLab Network is a recently-launched network of more than 20 city-university partnerships focused on “smart cities”. The Network was launched as part of the…
The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South
The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South Edited by Susan Parnell and Sophie Oldfield African Center for Cities The renaissance in urban theory draws…
UN-Habitat Report on land tenure issues among Yazidis in Iraq
In November, UN-Habitat published a report focusing on Housing, Land and Property issues in the Yazidi community’s area in Iraq. The findings of the…