All Things Urban

As part of the INTA Winter Session 2025/2026: Global Urban Futures – Delivering Better and Affordable Housing, this online session explores how cities can respond to crises while putting people at the centre of urban development. On 24 February at 16:00 CET, join Camila Jordan (TETO, Brazil) and Anne Bach Nielsen (University of Copenhagen, Department of Disaster and Crisis Studies) for a timely discussion on how Humanising City principles can strengthen urban resilience. The session will examine how cities can balance human needs, social cohesion, and adaptive urban planning when facing complex and overlapping challenges, from housing pressures to climate risks and social inequality. Drawing from practice in low-income settlements in Brazil and research on crisis governance and sustainable urban development, the speakers will reflect on how urban policy and planning can remain people-centred in times of uncertainty. This event is part of INTA’s broader strategic focus on housing equity, urban wellbeing, and resilient city-making. Register via: [email protected]

Urban planners, architects, policymakers, public sector professionals, researchers, housing advocates, urban designers, resilience and climate experts, and students interested in urban development, housing, and crisis response. **SPEAKERS** - **Camila Jordan**, environmental engineer, urban planner, and public policy researcher. Director of Institutional Relations and Advocacy of TETO Brasil, a non-profit working in low-income settlements (“favelas”) to promote housing justice, including emergency shelter construction and community development projects. - **Anne Bach Nielsen**, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University. Her research includes sustainable and healthy cities, global and local climate adaptation policies, transnational city networks, disaster and crisis management, city diplomacy, and sustainable development. At All Things Urban, we are especially happy to see Camila on this panel. She has long been part of the All Things Urban network and was one of the urban professionals [we interviewed in our article series](https://allthingsurban.net/blog/Stories-of-Young-Urbanists-Meet-Camila-Jordan) a few years ago, where we spotlighted diverse career paths shaping cities worldwide.

INTA - International Urban Development Association is a global membership association of urban policy-makers and practitioners to share knowledge, experience and tools for integrated territorial development.