In China, the traditional planning theory divides the urban living district into three tiers: Residential District, Residential Quarter,...

Refresher Course on “Mainstreaming gender equity in and a rights-based approach to Vietnam's urban development policy: the transformative...

What is resilience? Resilience can be defined as the ability to foresee danger, minimize the effect and recover rapidly through...

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything”. What would Margaret Mitchell say about land grabbing? How would she...

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...

Veronica Olivotto Background During the Habitat II conference in Istanbul, the IHS worked with the UN-Habitat, the Bartlett Development...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When I sat down with Kamal Haglan (IHS Alumnus, CHHURR Yemen – August 2000), and after a brief conversation, his most noticeable quality...

Help poured in from all over the world when supertyphoon Yolanda (International name: Haiyan) devastated much of the Visayas region of...

The development of our society has reached an unprecedented level, especially due to technological advances and internet, which...

Mubeen Ahmad is an IHS alumnus, who graduated from the MSc programme in Urban Management and Development (UMD7) almost six years ago....

Urban planning and development is one of the most crucial processes that guides orderly development in urban and rural areas. One of the...

Africa is ready to start its own agricultural revolution in the middle of a rapid urbanization growth. Around 1960, Africa was rural and...

The non-availability of water remains one of the most problematic issues in Ahmedabad, India. The ever-increasing population has also...

The mega-region and the axis Source: Author on Google Maps image, 2016 “We can never really understand cities as simply “things in...

I would like to open this article with a quote from Edward Glaeser, who emphasizes the importance of cities and of urban development....

IHS Alumni Association India, in collaboration with Lokashraya Foundation, conducted a seminar on the Housing for All initiative on 8th...