Year and Location: Aug 2005 –July 2007 Indonesia. Client: PBSI, Dutch Government
The objective of this two-year project is to strengthen the Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI) as a institutional home for training, advisory services, dissemination of knowledge and research for urban management and regional development in Indonesia through: * Assisting URDI in becoming a centre of excellence in local governance and urban management capacity building; * Building capacity at UR more...
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Year and Location: 2003 - 2006, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Cuba, Egypt. Client: UN-HABITAT
The Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) is a joint UN-HABITAT/UNEP capacity-building and institutional strengthening facility. SCP promotes and supports environmental governance. Since its launch in 1991, SCP has grown from a modest single UN-HABITAT initiative to a global multi-agency programme. The facility applies Agenda 21 principles to support implementation of the Habitat Agenda whilst buildi more...
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Year and Location: March - April 2007, Thailand.Client: Nuffic & Thai National Housing Authority. At the end of 2006, the National Housing Authority (NHA) was commissioned by the Thai government to take the initiative for the development of a National Housing Strategy. As part of this ‘National Housing Strategy’ programme, Urban Solutions was asked to develop and conduct a training programme with the objective to set out the framework for the first Thai national long-term and over-all housin more...
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Year and Location: Aug-Oct 2004, Thailand. Client: Thai National Housing Authority. At the request of the Thai National Housing Authority, Urban Solutions provided a comparative study on instruments to speed up housing production and stimulate housing demand from selected Asian and European countries. The comparative study was accompanied by strategic advice document that was used in the design of the Authority’s Baan Eua Athorn Project. Urban Solutions was responsible for all aspects of this more...
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Year and Location: Feb 2004 – Sep 2005, Bulgaria. Client: MATRA Fund. Transition in the Bulgarian housing sector has been drastic in the 1990's. Housing production is no longer solely a state affair. Private parties are also increasingly responsible for management and maintenance of the housing stock, yet for many home owners investment in maintenance has not become a habit. In multi family buildings apartment buildings technical problems are starting to become urgent particularly in the panel more...
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Year and Location: May - July 2004, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia. Client: Stability Pact
Urban Solutions, together with PRC Bouwcentrum International and DIGH was assigned to carry out a number of fact finding missions to the Balkan countries to assess the need for establishing a regional training programme for housing policies and urban development. It was concluded that capacity building is needed urgently to deal with the following three problems: more...
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1. Overview: San Rocco is an ecological quarter constituted by 13 built blocks and about 300housings. Faenza municipality owns the area (84.454 mq). The project is financed
by Ministry of Infrastructures and by Emilia Romagna Region with “Quarter
agreements II” program – law 8/2/2001 n°21. 2. Activity description: Background and Objectives - Location: Faenza north-east periphery, between railway Faenza – Russi –
Ravenna and Ravegnana street. Problem to solve: Requalific more...
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