A new short film featured at Citylab captures the striking scenes of skyscrapers encroaching on farmers amid China’s rapid urbanization. This is what urban sprawl looks like in many south…
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Although access to clean, safe water is a basic human right, one in 10 people still drink water from unprotected sources. The global water crisis is such that its effects…
Though much of the mainstream architectural discourse around informal settlements centers on the issue of adequate housing, it is inadequate sanitation that poses an even greater risk to the health…
If there’s one thing we can learn from International Women’s Day which took place last week on March 8th, it’s that we shouldn’t limit our celebration of women to one…
A great short documentary by our partner organization The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) explaining the importance of their Shelter Research Unit in developing advanced…
All we could feel was shock and profound sadness at the loss of our former student Nerea Perez-Arrospide in a tragic motorcycle accident during her internship in Senegal in September…
Earthquake-hit Chamanga On April 16th 2016, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake devastated coastal Ecuador, killing over 700 people just one month before being rattled once again by a second magnitude 6.8 quake….
A video interview with our Development by Design speaker Clara Irazabal, who explains how social housing movements in Brazil have effectively flipped land grabbing on its head, carving new paths…
It’s that time of the year again when people start hunting for master programs to further their studies and field of expertise. If you want to find out more about…
Here’s a video recap of our Development by Design conference with Alejandro Haiek, the first of our three guest speakers in the second edition of our conference series on the…