ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
By helping our Members to make their cities and regions sustainable, low-carbon, resilient, ecomobile, biodiverse, resource-efficient and productive, healthy and happy, with a green…
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…
Sustainable Development Solutions Center
Sustainable Development Solutions Center is a New York based policy advisory facility at the New School focused on climate change, infrastructure economics and finance,…
Audiovisual Tricycles by ‘VJ Suave’ Project Animations
Interactive public art doesn’t get much better than this. Artist duo Ygor Marotta and Ceci Soloaga of VJ Suave designed these pheonomenal audiovisual…
Talking Headways Podcast: Pattern Cities and the Bellbottoms of Urbanism
TALKING HEADWAYS PODCASTS Thursday October 22, 2015: StreetBlog talks to Mike Lydon of The Street Plans Collaborative and co-author of the recent book Tactical Urbanism.…
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.
Nighttime View of Earth Reveals Size of Urban Sprawl
The PNNL team working at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), in collaboration with University of Maryland, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
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.
Uganda hosted its first Urban Development Conference
Africa City and Urban Development Conference: Although only 14 percent urban in 2009 it is expected that by 2050 Uganda will be amongst the most urbanized countries in Africa with 70% of the population in urban areas.The Uganda Vision 2040 was launched in 2014, to guide the socio-economic development of East Africa’s third largest economy.