Events with CatComm

Join Us August 7th for “Informal Settlements and the Search for Climate Change Solutions”

GREEN CITIES: RIO DE JANEIRO Informal settlements and the search for climate change solutions Please join CSU as we welcome our guest speaker Dr. Theresa Williamson, Ph.D., [...]

Join Us Online on August 6th for “Sustainable Favelas: The Key to Climate Justice and Thriving Cities?”

WEBINAR: Cities for Everyone with Gil Sustainable Favelas: The Key to Climate Justice and Thriving Cities? Guest: Theresa Williamson, PhD Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024 Time: [...]

Watch “Sustainable Favelas: The Key to Climate Justice and Thriving Cities”

Design Matters Lecture at the University of Calgary’s School of Planning, Architecture and Landscape Sustainable Favelas: The Key to Climate Justice and Thriving Cities [...]

New Paths for Building Sustainable Cities: The Potential of Collective Land Management Based on the Community Land Trust

Clique aqui para Português As part of the UN’s Urban October’s Urban Circuit 2022 and World CLT Day 2022, the Favela Community Land Trust Project* held the [...]

Food Sovereignty in the Favela! Sustainable Favela Network Event Plants Seeds of Food Sovereignty in Complexo da Penha [VIDEO]

On August 6, Serra da Misericórdia, the largest remaining forest in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, hosted the first in-person post-pandemic exchange [...]

Join CatComm at the 2022 World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland

The 11th World Urban Forum will be held in Katowice, Poland from June 26-30, 2022. Organized and convened by UN-Habitat, the World Urban Forum has become the foremost [...]

Join our webinar “The Experience of Community Land Trusts in Latin America” on October 21

Please join us for the webinar “The Experience of Community Land Trusts in Latin America”, on October 21 at 5pm EST (GMT-4). The event is being organized by [...]

At 1st Sustainable Favela Network International Exchange, 5 Nations Light a Path to Climate Justice

On August 28, 2021, 258 people from 33 countries gathered online to participate our the first Sustainable Favela Network International Exchange, where twenty community [...]

Rethinking the Future of Housing Worldwide: Favelas as a Sustainable Model with Theresa Williamson

Republished from Shareable Could Rio’s favelas offer a sustainable housing model for cities around the world? What are the impacts of over-policing black mobility in the [...]

Community Land Trusts and the Struggle for the Right to the City: Dialogue on Rio and Mozambique

Clique aqui para Português As part of the activities of UN-Habitat’s 2020 Urban Circuit, the Community Land Trust (CLT) Working Group held a livestreamed virtual event on [...]

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