Mapping for Food Safety in Nairobi
How and why communities in Nairobi’s informal settlements are creating and using maps to ensure their food and the people who sell it are…
New Urbanization Guidelines For China’s Cities
A new set of guidelines titled “Green and Smart Urban Development Guidelines” have been published through a collaborative effort by the China Development Bank Capital, the biggest source…
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…
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…
Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory: Princeton Press
In Landscape as Urbanism, one of the field’s pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape.
A new report from Brookings: Foresight Africa 2016
A preview of Foresight Africa: Top priorities for the continent in 2016, in which the Africa Growth Initiative and its colleagues discuss six overarching…
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…
Secondary Cities: Neglected Drivers of Growing Economies
While much of the attention in international development and academia has focused on mega and primary cities, rapidly growing secondary cities will play a…
Cairo Declaration on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development in the Arab Region Adopted
Cairo, December 2015 – The Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development in the Arab region was adopted on the last day of…