25 March, 2016 Richard Sliuzas from the University of Twente in the Netherlands in this lecture outlines how new technologies means new approaches to mapping, in particular slum mapping, and the implications of this. SYNOPSIS Slum mapping...

The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), a partnership between UN-DESA, UNESCO, UNEP, UN Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, UNU and UN-Habitat, is preparing a report on the role of Higher Education for Sustainable...

11 March, 2016 Kecia Rust from the Centre for Affordable Housing in South Africa in this lecture discusses the current state of housing finance in Africa. SYNOPSIS If cities are built the way they are financed (Renaud,...

11 March, 2016 Ronald Wall (Institute for Housing and Urban Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam/University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) in this lecture calls a new paradigm on how to empirically address globalization and urbanization using big data...

March 3, 2016 The Low/No Cost Conference announced previously by ETH Zurich has extended its deadline for submission of abstracts to March 15, 2016. The No Cost Housing Conference is hosted and organized by the ETH Wohnforum—ETH...

1 Mars, 2016 The UNI Gender Hub, UN-Habitat’s Gender Equality Unit and Women In Sustainable Housing (WISH) has opened a discussion focused on the topic on women in the sustainable housing sector. The topic of the discussion...