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31/10/2017

Urban October....! World Cities Day! Celebrating innovative approaches in Urban development.

UN-HABITAT's Urban Planning and Design Branch is working with international experts to support through design and planning sustainable urban growth.

Great to work with the best landscape and urban experts and with the local

Throughout 2016, UN-Habitat together with the Netherlands Creative Industries, launched five Urban Planing and Design projects in Tacloban, Philippines; Gaza...

21/09/2017

Urban labs 'the movie' about urban design in challenging urban environments shown at the film festival.

UN-HABITAT

06/06/2017

Support this urban community project in Nairobi! Bricks out of recycled waste - turn streets around in colourful places! Share the project and or become part of it by supporting the Indiegogo campaign.

Dandora Transformation League Making Cities Together Placemakers Project for Public Spaces Urbego Ifhp CityLab I Like Architecture AJ+ Archinect Land+Civilization Compositions BNA Branchevereniging Nederlandse Architectenbureaus NAI Rotterdam Rebar Associates

14/04/2017

Do you want to become a placemaker? Join us for the campus Urban Thinkers Campus 'Making Cities Together' in Nairobi in May!

Please join and contribute to the Urban Thinkers Campus “MAKING CITIES TOGETHER: The City We Need, through Safe, Inclusive and Accessible Public Spaces”…

10/03/2017

Help us shaping the New Urban Agenda... focusing on the implementation of public spaces through placemaking.

This will be an interactive conference with on site Living Labs, Key Note Dialogues and the opening of the Modelstraat of Urban Thinkers Campus 'Making Cities Together'.

Registration OPEN for the Making Cities Together and International New Town Institute Campus, to be held from 3-4 May 2017 in Nairobi UN-HABITAT. For more information and registration please visit: http://ow.ly/T4rf309LLgQ

14/02/2017

Check the database of over 200 New Town Plans in Africa!

Africa is no longer the rural continent many people think it is. On the contrary: it is the fastest urbanizing continent in the world. Chinese, Korean, Singaporean firms, American, English and Swiss designers are engaged in building New Towns. But where are the African planners and designers? And where is the first New Town that is truly inclusive, providing for the majority of the African population?

International New Town Institute

http://www.newtowninstitute.org/spip.php?article1176

> 200+ New Towns in Africa added to the INTI database! Africa is no longer the rural continent many people think it is. On the contrary: it is (...)

23/01/2017

Watch now!

Great documentary film about our urban plans for Gaza.

https://vimeo.com/album/4364421/video/199967704

UN-HABITAT Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Media HQ Cityförster LOLA landscape architects Peter Vanden Abeele

In 2016 the Netherlands Creative Fund joined hands with UN Habitat Urban Labs. In 5 countries on 4 continents groups of architects, planners and urbanists analyzed…

23/01/2017

FREEM is happy to announce our collaboration with . Looking forward to collaborate on future sustainable developments!

Diana Brandes-van Dorresteijn Raymond Brandes

http://freem.eu/wordpress/?p=2051

19-01-17 FREEM is happy to announce our partnership with DevelopmentConnect. Yesterday, we signed our Memorandum of Understanding to work even more together in the future. DevelopmentConnect operates in the field of sustainable development globally. Naomi (FREEM) will bring in her expertise in analy...

05/01/2017

Architectural Association of Kenya AAK Architects Chapter Awards of Excellence for architecture and landscape in Kenya...with Kenyan Architecture expert Janfrans van der Eerden as a member of the Jury.

Among others prices for best landscaping goes to Uhuru Kenyatta way, best educational project to Breaburn garden estate and best cultural project to Don Bosco in Upper Hill... check it out!


https://issuu.com/archidatum/docs/the_architect_issue_10__2016/26

The Architect Magazine is an initiative of the AAK Architects' Chapter.

20/09/2016

Experiences and outcomes of our project in Gaza will be shared Pakhuis De Zwijger Amsterdam UN-HABITAT

https://dezwijger.nl/programma/un-habitat-urban-labs

Urban Challenges in Ghana, Mexico, Philipines, Palestine and Myanmar.