In 1969, 26 offices, 13 local and 13 international, were selected to enter a competition on four different pilot projects and to design 1500 housing units in a derelict area north of Lima’s city centre. The housing schemes also had to provide the possibility to be extended and modified by the inhabitants over time.

This study was prepared at the invitation of the Nairobi City Council under a program entitled: “Site and Services Project - Outline of a Scheme for Human Settlement in Nairobi for Submission by the Government of Kenya to the World Bank.” 

comprised members representing the UN, Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA), and the Yugoslav Architects Association and Town Planning Federation. 

Four foreign architecture firms were invited to submit entries. On 12 July 1965 the jury announced no clear winner and divided the first prize between Kenzo Tange (sixty per cent) and Misceevic & Wenzler (forty per cent).

1962 Lorange Plan with 1969 URD Updates – the basis of the 1963 UN Technical Assistance Team urban redevelopment recommendations. 

After laying out the spatial, infrastructural, and ecological or landscape grid of the city, the Capital Development Authority (CDA), a government organization that oversaw and managed the Islamabad project, invited notable Western architects

to design the public buildings.

The question is: What will be the population in the two towns of Tema and Accra in, say, twenty years time? It is estimated that this must exceed a million as against a present population of 415, 000.

 increasing rate of urbanization was a world-wide

 problem of great urgency, a problem that must

 be met in urban and rural areas ali

 share of U.N. budgeting resources, proportionate to

 its gravity and significance, a special branch to be

 established under the U.N. Secretariat and a pro-

 gramme of action to be formulated for the remaining

 period of the U.N. Development Decade

 terms of dimensions, is to develop a system and a methodol-

 ogy:

 • to study all kinds of settlements, irrespective of size, loca-

 tion, etc., in order to draw general conclusions about them;

 • to study each as a whole, without excluding any of its ele-

 ments in order to illuminate the knowledge of the field and

 to solve the specific problems of the settlement under

 study

For each of the presentations, I would like to see:

1) a project's key image, with name, dates and location; show us where it is on the globe!

2) a three-sentence key description

3) a brief run-down of what happened, when, how; some background

4) the role of the United Nations: how, when and why the UN got involved

5) key moments in the project: how did the project develop, what happened

6) key people involved: UN officials, architects, planners, politicians, etc.

7) interesting facts, details, planning decisions, etc.

8) images, drawings, plans