Articles
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Why Wait in the Queue? How Kenya’s Slum Dwellers are Reclaiming their Toilets
In the face of failing sanitation systems, the residents of Mathare are taking matters into their own hands. Nairobi, Kenya: A group is gathered around a leaking sewage system, armed with long wooden sticks, spades and rakes. Some wear protective gloves and gumboots, but many do not. Inserting long sticks inside the leaking sewer, they […]
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Live streaming of the Habitat Conference 2013
Are you interested in following the Habitat Conference live?
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Evening event 9 October: Gran Horizonte by Urban-Think Tank
Habitat Norway is proud to announce that we will premier Urban-Think Tank’s new documentary ‘Gran Horizonte’ 9 October at Kulturhuset, Youngstorget, Oslo. Habitat Norway is co-funding this documentary. Gran Horizonte: Around the Day in 80 Worlds A new documentary from U-TT Films and Chair Brillembourg & Klumpner at ETH Zürich Compiled with material filmed over […]
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New and smart technologies in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is about to become the first smart city in Latin-America, according to the article “Tomorrow’s cities: Rio de Janeiro’s bid to become a smart city”, published the 9th of September 2013 in BBC News”. A project, co-ordinated by Unicef in collaboration with the local non-government organisation CEDAPS (Centro de Promocao da Saude) […]
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Infrastructure 2013: Waste, presentation
Presentation from the fourth ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 28 August in Oslo, on solid waste management and informal settlements that emerge in proximity to dumping sites. How is poor waste management affecting poor urban communities, the inhabitants’ health and the environment? What is the linkage between livelihoods and informal solid waste management? Can lack of […]
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Infrastructure 2013: Electricity, presentations
Presentation from the third ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 12 June in Oslo, on access to electricity in informal settlements and growing cities. How is the daily life, the outlook of a more prosperous life and security affected by the lack of or insufficient and sporadic access to electricity? And are informal settlements taken into account […]
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Infrastructure 2013: Public Transport, Presentations
Presentation from the second ‘Infrastructure 2013′ seminar held 24 April in Oslo, looking at the provision of public transport in growing cities. Below you find the presentation held by Malin Bismo Lerudsmoen from The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (In Norwegian). Hvorfor trenger vi offentlig transport? Malin Bismo Lerudsmoen, The Norwegian Public Roads Administration
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The Recycled Instruments Orchestra of Cateura – Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Cateura is the name of the enormous landfill located in Paraguay’s capital city, Asunción. It is also one of South American’s poorest slums and home to the young members of the ‘Recycled Orchestra’, but instruments built from rubbish have given these children a new lease of life through music, and their visit to Ultima and […]
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Garbage collection in the Mathare Slum
Many youth groups in the slum communities of Nairobi, Kenya, run garbage collection services. Their goal is to create a clean and healthy environment for all – and to uplift the youth. Are you interested in this topic, come for our next seminar that will focus at solid waste management in growing cities and informal […]
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Slum dwellers are mapping the informal settlements of Nairobi
Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map. But in November 2009, young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. “Another interesting example that shows how data can be quickly gathered and used involves […]
