The Three-Tier Structure of Living District Planning and the Residential Quarter Model
In China, the traditional planning theory divides the urban living district into three tiers: Residential District, Residential Quarter,...
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- Mar 8, 2017
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Planning for Mainstreaming gender equity on International Women's Day
Refresher Course on “Mainstreaming gender equity in and a rights-based approach to Vietnam's urban development policy: the transformative...
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- Feb 21, 2017
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“Urban Space and Disaster: Building Resilience with Communities”
What is resilience? Resilience can be defined as the ability to foresee danger, minimize the effect and recover rapidly through...
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- Feb 15, 2017
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Lands gone with the African wind
“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything”. What would Margaret Mitchell say about land grabbing? How would she...
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- Jan 31, 2017
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A vision for urban networks and professionals
A new year's address by the President of the IHS International alumni network Dear city changer, The world looks very different to me at...
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- Jan 18, 2017
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Changing Capacity Building: Decentralising Urban Learning for Today’s Cities
Veronica Olivotto Background During the Habitat II conference in Istanbul, the IHS worked with the UN-Habitat, the Bartlett Development...
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- Nov 22, 2016
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IHS at HabitatIII: A fresh alumna's perspective
When people asked how my trip to Habitat III in Quito was, I usually had to think before answering. Both the conference and the city left...
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- Nov 7, 2016
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"Hung Viet Ngo, I grant you the title of Doctor in the customary honour"
The 6th of October marked the final step for Hung Viet Ngo in the journey to obtain his Doctor of Philosophy Degree. I was very...
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- Oct 19, 2016
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Can food production and food security remain rural issues?
With more people in Africa moving to live in cities, and Africa being the fastest urbanizing continent in the world, is it viable for us...
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- Sep 23, 2016
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Cities, People and Places: Ang Pilipinas Edition!
Experiences are addition of pages to the book of life. This is one thing that you can’t get for nothing. You can read them repeatedly to...
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- Sep 19, 2016
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Kamal Haglan - Alumni Interview
When I sat down with Kamal Haglan (IHS Alumnus, CHHURR Yemen – August 2000), and after a brief conversation, his most noticeable quality...
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- Sep 9, 2016
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Three years after supertyphoon Haiyan, the challenges of rebuilding remain.
Help poured in from all over the world when supertyphoon Yolanda (International name: Haiyan) devastated much of the Visayas region of...
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- Aug 16, 2016
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"Securing well located land for the vulnerable: the poor, women and youth" Refresher Course, Nigeria
The development of our society has reached an unprecedented level, especially due to technological advances and internet, which...
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- Aug 2, 2016
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What I enjoy the most is not making buildings, but creating livelihoods
Mubeen Ahmad is an IHS alumnus, who graduated from the MSc programme in Urban Management and Development (UMD7) almost six years ago....
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- Jul 15, 2016
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IHS AI honorary member in the spotlight: Senior Urban Expert Edward Frank
Urban planning and development is one of the most crucial processes that guides orderly development in urban and rural areas. One of the...
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- Jul 6, 2016
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Global Competitive Cities: Agricultural Revolution and Urbanization in Africa
Africa is ready to start its own agricultural revolution in the middle of a rapid urbanization growth. Around 1960, Africa was rural and...
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- Jun 29, 2016
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Ahmedabad’s progress through the water problem
The non-availability of water remains one of the most problematic issues in Ahmedabad, India. The ever-increasing population has also...
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- Jun 23, 2016
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The São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro Mega-region: a territory in an urban world
The mega-region and the axis Source: Author on Google Maps image, 2016 “We can never really understand cities as simply “things in...
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- May 26, 2016
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When humans meet cities
I would like to open this article with a quote from Edward Glaeser, who emphasizes the importance of cities and of urban development....
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- May 25, 2016
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Housing for All: A challenge in India
IHS Alumni Association India, in collaboration with Lokashraya Foundation, conducted a seminar on the Housing for All initiative on 8th...
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