{UAH} Enroll for Physical /Transport Planning Courses

AF: Why is this regenerative urban development important for sustainability?

PO: We are experiencing an explosive growth. Now 50 percent of the world's population lives in cities; in some countries that goes down to 25 percent. Development is urbanization. Developed countries are 70 percent to 75 percent urbanized. The world is urbanizing very rapidly. In 20 years 2 billion people will move to cities. They already are: 300,000 every day; 2 million every week. As we are not responding to this challenge the result is that we are building slums. Up to two-thirds of development in many African cities is slums. The administration, and all of us, are responsible for those slums, as we are proving incompetent to address the issue while solutions are right there.

AF: What about closing funding gaps from central governments to improve the quality of life for city dwellers?

PO: Where does Central Government get that money for 'funding gaps'? Taxes? Not easy to tax when 70 percent of the economy is informal and goes under the radar. Taxing more the 30 percent formal, which is already formal and overtaxed, as they pay for the 100 percent of the public budget, is not the solution. You are pushing them into the informal sector to survive.

http://www.urbanafrica.net/news/development-urbanization-case-regenerative-african-cities/

Individuals who wish to join a one year multi- disciplinary masters program 2015 below they can write to me and copy the letters to the mails below. These courses can be combined with practical physical planning in towns and urban areas in key areas where it is needed most plus initiating development programs.

SIUP and Milano University are organizing the multidisciplinary Physical Planning Masters program which will be running for a one full academic year. The course includes units like; master, spatial and detail plan design, landscape design, architecture, cartography, urban project development, financing and modeling etc.

The program will be taught by 10 University professors. Since we have to source for the professors from Europe it is better to join the course as a group to lower the cost to ~3200 Euros. There is also a possibility of doing part of the course in Milano.

Classes are limited to 25 - 30 students only. and we can two sessions that 50 to 60 students 

Districts that might wish to be considered for this course, will have to request for the course in writing to SIUP as a group, with details of number of prospective students. You can copy the request to Prof. Pedro Ortiz pedro.b.ortiz@hotmail.com

Those interested in Transport Planning, Engineering and Economics can make the same request. Course can only be mounted with the above numbers.

Bwanika--
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Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero

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