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New Town Radio
15 November 2016
Three weeks ago, October 19th, INTI was in Quito, Ecuador for the Habitat III conference with Jorn Konijn. We made a full day of radio, talking to architects, planners, artists, local activist and policy-makers to discus the future of living in (...)




New Towns; Challenges and Opportunities
19 October 2016
What are the most important challenges and opportunities on the agenda of New Towns? How can questions of livability, demography, participation, work, accessibility and mobility be transformed into guidelines for the design of new towns? By (...)




INTI@Habitat III - activities
9 October 2016
From Oct 13-21 INTI will be based in Quito at the Habitat III conference and is looking forward to welcome you. Check out the INTI’s activities agenda and join us! Expert Group Meeting 
’Achieving Sustainable New Town Development in (...)




INTI at Habitat III in Quito
29 September 2016
Our event “New Towns; laboratories for implementation of the New Urban Agenda” has been selected as part of the official program of the Habitat III conference. As our partner, member, colleague or friend, we invite you to join our event in (...)




Meet us in Quito!
26 September 2016
> Meet us in Quito! < Our event “New Towns; laboratories for implementation of the New Urban Agenda” has been selected as part of the official program of the Habitat III conference. As our partner, member, colleague or friend, we invite (...)




Newsletter August 2016
4 August 2016
> International New Town Day Videos Now Online < On June 30th, INTI brought together speakers from 12 New Towns on 4 continents in the Netherlands. During the conference, city representatives, academics, architects, sociologists and (...)




"Shenzhen
From Factory of the World to World City"
7 July 2016
The spectacular story of Shenzhen is well known: a collection of rural villages became a new town in 1979 when the central Chinese government gave it the status of Special Economic Zone. Shenzhen turned into a metropolis and became a prototype (...)




Setting the New Urban Agenda
for New Towns #6
9 June 2016
> African New Towns: Ningo Pram Pram (Ghana) and Kribi (Cameroon) < Africa is key to the future of the world. The African population is growing faster than any other population and in 2040, Africa will have a larger labor force than China (...)




Setting the New Urban Agenda
for New Towns #5
9 June 2016
> Seeking a New Identity through Urban Regeneration < Cities age fast. Even emblematic New Towns built according to utopian models of only 50 to 60 years ago must now rethink their ambitions and identity. This also goes for the cities of (...)




Newsletter May 2016
20 May 2016
Alamar expedition Born out of necessity, Cuba has one of the most extensive systems of urban agriculture in the world, providing the population with a high percentage of their green vegetables. The country also has a well-functioning healthcare (...)




Setting the New Urban Agenda
for New Towns #4
12 May 2016
> Less is more: Zero waste policies < With climate change catching on, every city is concerned with its level of sustainability. Where older cities are trying to adapt their original structure, New Towns have the opportunity to (...)




Newsletter April 2016
15 April 2016
Minecraft for the sake of urban design In cooperation with UN-Habitat, the Making Cities Together team in Nairobi organized a Minecraft workshop in Dandora, a suburb of Nairobi. During this workshop, the computer game Minecraft was used as a (...)




Re-Imagining India
1 April 2016
INTI and magazine My Liveable City (India) organize a knowledge tour to the Netherlands from April 11 to April 16, 2016. Currently, 31% of India’s population lives in cities and that number is supposed to rise to 50% by 2030. In order to steer (...)




Newsletter March 2016
16 March 2016
Feeding the City: mapping the metabolism of Nairobi Can urban planning help to achieve food security for all? How do corridors between the rural area and the city function in the metropolitan region? And how can urban-rural linkages contribute (...)




Newsletter February 2016
2 February 2016
Urban Africa With the announced plan to build a new capital city for 5-7 million inhabitants 45km east of Cairo, Egyptian New Towns have taken on renewed importance in the national discussion. New Towns have been on the urban agenda of Egypt (...)