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February 26, 2016

A new Journal of Design and Science (JoDS) from MIT Media Lab

  PubPub is a platform for totally transparent publishing. Read, Write, Publish, Review. Launched in early 2016, the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS)…

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February 23, 2016

Striking Disparities in Food Insecurity Rates Among Older Adults

Nearly 8 percent of adults age 65 and older are food insecure, meaning they do not always have balanced meals or enough to eat…

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February 21, 2016

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…

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February 17, 2016

Van Alen Short Documentaries on Infrastructure | Episode 3 launches Feb. 17

Van Alen Sessions is an online short-documentary series highlighting current debates about urban infrastructure, presented with The Atlantic and CityLab. The first of the…

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February 17, 2016

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…

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February 16, 2016

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…

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February 11, 2016

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…

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February 10, 2016

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…

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February 10, 2016

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…

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February 5, 2016

The 2016 Food+City Challenge, February 6 in Austin, Texas

Finalists in the Food+City Challenge will compete for US$50,000. Food Tank: The annual Food+City Challenge Prize encourages entrepreneurs throughout the system. And the requirement for ideas…

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