projects

   #1planning
 #2 housing
    #3environment
       #4 society
    #5architecture
 
Praxisbezogene Projektbeispiele – darunter viele sogenannte ‚best practices’ – finden sich in Projekt-Datenbanken oder Bilder-Datenbanken. Diese eignen sich u.a. zur Verwendung in Referaten oder als Referenz auf ausgeführte Projekte.
Unsere Auswahl ist unterteilt in Stadt- und Regionalplanung (planning) Wohnungsbau-Projekte (housing) und Architektur-Beispiele (architecture).

Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sind jederzeit willkommen und werden per e-mail erbeten auf die addresse: par@par.tu-darmstadt.de.
 
planning
Werkstatt-Stadt
präsentiert auf einer Internet-Plattform gute Beispiele aus der bundesweiten Städtebaupraxis. Derzeit finden Sie 107 innovative Projekte im Städtebau.
Die Sammlung "Innovative Projekte im Städtebau" (IProS) versteht sich als Informations- und Transferbeitrag für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung im Sinne der Agenda 21. Zugleich will IProS einen Beitrag zur Stadtbaukultur in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland liefern.
http://www.werkstatt-stadt.de/ipros/
Forschungsprogramm Experimenteller Wohnungs- und Städtebau “ExWoSt”
Präsentation innovativer Planungen und Maßnahmen zu wichtigen städtebau- und wohnungspolitischen Themen in Deutschland.
http://www.bbr.bund.de/exwost/index.html
Dubai International Award for Best Practices
http://dubai-award.dm.gov.ae/winner96.htm
 
housing  
UN-HABITAT Best Practices Database
This searchable database contains over 2150 proven solutions from more than 140 countries to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world. It demonstrates the practical ways in which public, private and civil society sectors are working together to improve governance, eradicate poverty, provide access to shelter, land and basic services, protect the environment and support economic development.
http://www.bestpractices.org
http://www.unhabitat.org/
 
Committee on Human Settlements
The Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) set up a Panel on Housing Problems, which later evolved into the Committee on Human Settlements (CHS).  The Committee is an intergovernmental body of all ECE member States; it provides a forum for the compilation, dissemination and exchange of information and experience on housing, urban development, land administration including national and local objectives and policies
http://www.unece.org
 
Building and Social Housing Foundation
WORLD HABITAT AWARDS and Housing Projects Databank
This database contains practical and innovative solutions to current housing problems throughout the world. Initiated in 1985, the annual World Habitat Awards competition attracts projects which provide an outstanding contribution to people's living conditions in a variety of contexts.
http://www.bshf.org
HABITAT TECHNOLOGY GROUP
Largest NGO working in the building sector promoting appropriate technologies and Green Architecture in India today. 

http://www.habitatgroup.org/aboutus.htm
 
Cities Alliance
A global alliance of cities and their development partners committed to improve the living conditions of the urban poor through action
http://www.citiesalliance.org/citiesalliancehomepage.nsf
 
Urban Upgrading Communities
An interactive site with choices, tradeoffs, tools, and 'hints' targeted to administrators and practitioners.
http://web.mit.edu/urbanupgrading/upgrading/index.html

 

 
environment  
The United Nations Environmental Programme
The EST Database lists 91 annotated databases

http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/database/index.asp

 

 
society / development policies  
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations.
It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that promote women's human rights, political participation and economic security.
http://www.unifem.org/ 
United Nations Development Programme
UNDP is the UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life
http://www.undp.org/

 

Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze (ZIF)
Seine Aufgabe ist es, zur Stärkung internationaler ziviler Kapazitäten zur Krisenprävention, Konfliktlösung und Friedenskonsolidierung durch insbesondere die folgenden Maßnahmen beizutragen, z.B. durch Training von zivilen Fach- und Führungskräften für internationale Friedens- und Beobachtungseinsätze oder durch Erstellung von unabhängigen wissenschaftlichen Analysen, Erarbeitung von Lessons Learned und Best Practices, Beratung und Information, Durchführung von Seminaren und Konferenzen etc.
http://www.zif-berlin.org/
 
The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. Most sources are UK based.
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

 
The ODI's Africa Web Portal
 
has been updated and restructured. These links lead directly to a wealth of ODI material on Africa: ODI research reports, Briefing Papers, Opinion pieces and meeting reports on these themes, together with reports of work carried out directly for the Commission, including the results of e-consultations in Africa.
http://www.odi.org.uk/Africa_Portal/
id21 is a free service that communicates the latest UK-based
international development research to decision-makers and practitioners working in developing countries:
http://www.id21.org.
 id21 is enabled by the UK Department for International Development and hosted by the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex

 
This database contains over 2150 solutions from more than 140 countries to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world.
http://www.bestpractices.org/

 

Independent newsline on Africa 
http://www.afrol.com

 

 
architecture