Free Online Global Urban Lectures were Launched by UN-Habitat

The UN-Habitat launched the Global Urban Lecture Series on its website. The series is offered as a free resource by UN-Habitat, aimed at universities, urban practitioners, and policy makers, as well as general public who is interested in cities and sustainable urbanization.

The series was launched with 20 lectures, and more to follow shortly. Currently available lectures include:

• ‘Making room for a planet of cities’ – Shlomo (Solly) Angel – Stern School of Business, New York University;
• ‘Slums: past, present and future’ – Eugenie Birch – University of Pennsylvania;
• Citizen roles in resilient cities’ – Ron Dembo – Zerofootprint;
• ‘Incremental Housing – The new site & services’ – Reinhard Goethert – Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
• ‘Participation in practice’ – Nabeel Hamdi – Oxford Brookes University; 
• ‘Value Capture as a land based tool to finance development’ – Martim Smolka –Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

For more details, please access UN-Habitat’s website:

www.unhabitat.org