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Human Settlement

India uses inland waterways to decongest road, rail traffic

India has successfully begun making use of inland waterways to move heavy containers to reduce road and rail traffic, to make optimum utilisation of...

admin - November 4, 2018

Human Settlement

Abu Dhabi to host 10th World Urban Forum in 2020

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MOFAIC) and the Abu Dhabi Department of Urban Planning and Municipalities on Saturday, October 17, 2018...

admin - November 3, 2018

Human Settlement

1.4m people migrate to cities weekly, says UN

The UN says no fewer than 1.4 million people migrate every week to cities around the world. Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the weekly migration could...

admin - November 1, 2018

Human Settlement

World Cities Day: Highlighting need for cities’ resilience to risks

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Maimunah Mohd Sharif, in a message to commemorate the 2018 World Cities Day...

admin - October 30, 2018

Human Settlement

Volvo Environment Prize 2018 awardee tags Lagos ‘environmental nightmare’

A leading expert and thought leader on urbanisation and sustainability, Xuemei Bai, has painted a grim picture of the spatial status of Lagos, Nigeria’s...

admin - October 30, 2018

Human Settlement

Planners, statisticians seek global definition for cities

As part of efforts to provide the necessary technical support to countries for effective monitoring and reporting on human settlements indicators for the Sustainable...

admin - October 28, 2018

Human Settlement

Copenhagen to host C40 Mayors Summit 2019

Lord Mayor, Frank Jensen, announced on Friday, October 19, 2018 that the City of Copenhagen in Denmark would host the C40 Mayors Summit in...

admin - October 19, 2018

Human Settlement

Surveyors seek adoption of modern mapping technologies to end boundary overlap

Land surveyors on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 called for the adoption of Continuous Reference Station (CORS) system in surveying to ease land administration system...

admin - October 18, 2018

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