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:…
Bringing innovations in funding to government, developing world
USAID’s Global Development Lab is bringing private-sector investment strategies to developing countries. The USAID Global Development Lab, less than two years old, is bringing…
This week: The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture: An Era of Urbanization
The Global Forum on Food and Agricultures aims to inform agricultural ministers on how to supply growing urban centers with safe and healthy food.…
Habitat III must acknowledge children and youth in shaping the new urban agenda
Such a role for children and the youth traditionally has gone unrecognized. The New Urban Agenda will fail if we don’t reverse this trend.…
The New Urban Agenda must prompt planners to recognize informal labour
By Marty Chen, Citiscope Urban informal workers represent the broad base of the urban economy in most developing countries. On average, these account 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…
China’s Cloud: a Milestone in Urban Technology Innovation
The flight marks a major milestone in urban space technology. Luan Lin, chief technology officer of KuangChi Science, said that the system can be widely used in geographical surveying, traffic and wildfire monitoring, natural disasters and rescue missions.
MOOC on Urban Infrastructures | Planetizen
IGLUS is launching a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) about the Management of Urban Infrastructures on February 16, 2016.
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…