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NIRMAN 2011
The Gujarat Institute of Civil Engineers & Architects (GICEA) and Akar InfoMedia Pvt. Ltd. (AIM) are jointly organizing Gujarat’s largest construction confluence – NIRMAN (www.nirman.biz), every year at Ahmedabad. Its 26th edition – NIRMAN 2011 will be held at Gujarat University Convention Centre, Ahmedabad from 23-25 September 2011.

October 2010
New members of IHCN

4 October 2010

UNESCO/UN-HABITAT Brochure for Local Authorities Historic Districts for All - India : A Social and Human Approach for Sustainable Revitalisation

To celebrate World Habitat Day and particularly its theme of this year Better City Better Life, the UNESCO New Delhi office is pleased to announce the launch of the UNESCO/UN-HABITAT Brochure for Local Authorities Historic Districts for All – India: A Social and Human Approach for Sustainable Revitalisation.

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March 2010
5th World Urban Forum

UNESCO participated at the fifth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF) held at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) from 22 to 26 March. The theme for the forum was “The Right to the City - Bridging the Urban Divide”. The Urban Forum is the world’s leading conference on cities and examines the most pressing problems related to the urban context. It is organized by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT) every two years.

UNESCO has been cooperating with UN-Habitat since 1996 and more closely since the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding in 2005 to contribute to the Forum while emphasising the human face of Urbanization. UNESCO had its own stand in the general WUF 5 exhibition; it also actively contributed to the official event by organizing networking and training events.

The round table on the theme “How to Build Inclusive Cities: UNESCO /UN-HABITAT / UCLG Joint Efforts” provided an opportunity to present various projects that addressed the social and ethical challenges posed by the global process of urbanization. The initiatives highlighted in this context were the UNESCO Chairs “Urban policies and citizenship” (Lyon) and “Social and spatial inclusion of migrants” (Venice), the World Agenda Charter on Human Rights in the City jointly coordinated by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and the Nantes Secretariat for Human Rights and Local Governments, UNESCO’s International Coalition of Cities against Racism and Discrimination, and the joint projects of UN-HABITAT and UNESCO on “Historic Districts for all: a social and human approach for a sustainable revitalization” which is in the process of being published in India and “Creating Better Cities for Migrants”.

The training workshop “How to Prepare Education for a Changing Urban Environment?” focussed on the integration of sustainable urban development in the education of urban dwellers as a means to address issues such as poverty, discrimination and exclusion, sanitation, water and governance in the urban context in a sustainable manner. Experiences from UNESCO’s initiatives relating to the right to the city or sustainable urban water management were also shared.

World Heritage Review n°55 - World Heritage Cities
The World Heritage Review number 55 gives a wide overview on World Heritage Cities and urban conservation. It focusses on revising the approach to urban conservation and social inclusion in urban settings through the examples of Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca; addresses the challenge to retain World Heritage status. The publication further explores issues of identity, values and threats with the example of Vienna and highlights the benefits of urban revival looking at the example of the Stone Town of Zanzibar.

The World Heritage Review, features in-depth articles on cultural and natural World Heritage sites. It is published every three months in English, French and Spanish.