Urban Research and Development Institute

"A Seminar to brainstorm the solution and control on country-wide sky-rocketed land price to be held before October this year"

ေျမယာေစ်းႀကီးျမင့္မႈ အေျဖရွာထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ရန္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အဆင့္ေဆြးေႏြးမည္ တစ္ႏုိင္ငံလံုးတြင္ ေျမယာေစ်းႏႈန္းႀကီးျမင့္ေနျခင္းကုိ အေျဖ ရွာျခင္းႏွင့္ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ျခင္းမ်ား ျပဳ လုပ္ရန္ ဗဟုိအစိုးရက ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ အဆင့္ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတစ္ရပ္ျပဳလုပ္ ရန္ စီစဥ္ေနေၾကာင္း ၿမိဳ႕ရြာႏွင့္ အိုးအိမ္ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးမႈဦးစီးဌာနမွ အင္ ဂ်င္နီယာမွဴးႀကီး တစ္ဦးကေျပာ ၾကားသည္။

So proud of sharing with you that Mandalay is one of the first 32 cities selected for the 100 Resilient Cities Network by Rockefeller Foundation!

http://100resilientcities.rockefellerfoundation.org/cities?utm_medium=email&utm_source=RockefellerCentennial&utm_content=2&utm_campaign=20140602citypagesgeneral&source=20140602citypagesgeneral

Selected Cities The Rockefeller Foundation is hosting a global conversation on resilience and selecting 100 Resilient Cities, ready to withstand disasters and bounce back.

"Urban poor families in Yangon" credit and copyright - UN-Habitat

Handmade architecture as a catalyst for development !

Handmade architecture as a catalyst for development – Anna Heringer, UNESCO Chair for Earthen... Anna Heringer in this lecture stresses that architecture is a tool to improve lives, not only by providing roofs over peoples heads but to provide an architecture that contributes to dignity, a benevolent society and to cultural diversity.

Here is "Human Settlements Sector Review" of Myanmar by UN-Habitat in 1991. Old is gold to look back at what happened in the past and compare with the current situation. Enjoy it!
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs4/Habitat_report.pdf

URDI conducted last training on City Development Strategy (CDS) at Hpa-an, Kayin State on May 1, 2014. Participants were able to complete a list of prioritized integrated investment programmes/project actions plans and programmes through analysis of city's SWOT, city profile data, Vision and Objectives. They also learned monitoring and evaluation techniques for CDS and overall CDS Strategy process.

Take your time to look at these comparative maps by DHSHD, MoC. Rapid urbanization is taking place in all big towns and cities of Myanmar.

Myanmar's Geographic setting and land use! (Credit: DHSHD)

You can read books like this at our Urban Resource Center!

URDI brochure!

Dear Everyone,

We would like to invite you to our Urban Resource Centre. It was officially inaugurated in September, 2013 but we closed it for a while later due to some consturction and categorization process. We have got a librarian now and our books are back on the shelves. We have sourced over 500 books on Urbanization, DRR and Climate Change, Land issues and other related subjects from World Bank, ADB, UN-Escap, UN-Habitat and private donors. You all are warmly welcome to pay a visit to our resource centre.
Urban Resource Centre
228-234, Bogyoke Aung San Road
Botataung Township, Yangon
(inside DHSHD, Ministry of Construction office)
Opening hours : 9:30 am to 5 pm (Mon to Fri)

Humanitarian Research and Innovation Grant Programme at OCHA!

Humanitarian Research and Innovation Grant Programme The OCHA Policy Development and Studies Branch invites applications to its 2014 Humanitarian Research and Innovation Grant Programme.The programme encourages and enables original research and writing on issues and trends relating to humanitarian needs and response. 2014 Application and information p...