Tuesday December 22nd, 2015
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Quito, 22 December 2015 – Earlier this month, the jury of the sixth edition of the national competition “Best Practices in Local Management” rewarded initiatives in Environment and Sanitation, Public Management, Social Policies and Productive Development category, in the Eugenio Espejo Convention Center, in Quito. In the Public Management category, the first place went to
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Baghdad, 22 December 2015, – On the occasion of the World Human Rights Month , UN-Habitat published its  latest report focusing on Housing, Land and Property issues in the Yazidi community’s area in Iraq. The findings of the report were presented earlier this month in Beirut in a joint collaboration with the regional Office of
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Cairo, 21 December 2015 –The first Arab Ministerial Forum for Housing and Urban Development (AMFHUD) which was launched yesterday has brought together 15 high level ministerial delegations, representatives of national and regional organisations, private sector as well as civil society from the region. The forum is organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Housing, Utilities and
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En el año 2012, ONU-Habitat presentó al mundo un nuevo enfoque para medir el progreso actual y future de las ciudades: la Iniciativa de Ciudades Prósperas. Este enfoque busca resolver las formas ineficientes, insostenibles y disfunctionales con que fueron planificadas muchas ciudades del siglo pasado, orientando cambios transformadores en ellas a través de un marco
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En el año 2012, ONU-Habitat presentó al mundo un nuevo enfoque para medir el progreso actual y future de las ciudades: la Iniciativa de Ciudades Prósperas. Este enfoque busca resolver las formas ineficientes, insostenibles y disfunctionales con que fueron planificadas muchas ciudades del siglo pasado, orientando cambios transformadores en ellas a través de un marco
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(Deutsch) 04 Dec 2015, COP-21 in Paris: We are delighted to announce that the Guiding Principles are now live available for download. Please join us today 04 December 2015 from 10 to 11 am (UTC+1) for the Launch of the Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning at the COP-21 venue, Blue Zone hall 4, Climate Change Studio and share...
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(Deutsch) Chris Jefferies, Urban Drainage System Expert, in this lecture addresses the need to reduce the impact of city development of flooding on residents and in other places, and the worsening of the water quality in streams, rivers and lakes caused by the expansion of cities. Synopsis This lecture addresses the need to reduce the impact of city development of flooding...
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(Deutsch) In this lecture Peter Ward from The University of Texas at Austin presents data drawn from a nine-country/eleven city collaborative study that examines self-built housing in old established low-income neighborhoods formed 25-40 years ago. Synopsis Peter Ward in thus lecture brings up the issues of: 1) How to address the often forgotten needs for in-situ rehabilitation of the physical structure and...
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(Deutsch) In this lecture Marja Hoek Smit argues that housing finance is critical to solve the housing problem, increasing, as it does, the number of households that can afford to acquire a house in the formal market, which in turn will make large scale development of middle and lower middle income housing possible. Synopsis In this lecture Marja Hoek Smit argues...
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(Deutsch) Michael Cohen, The New School, in this lecture illustrates data about economic growth that demonstrate how cities act as engines of national economic development. Synopsis Michael Cohen in this lecture illustrates data about economic growth that demonstrate how cities act as engines of national economic development. In 2008, for the first time in human history, half the world’s population lived...