Civilization has reached a turning point: in 2008, the world’s urban population outnumbered the population living in rural areas.
According to estimates by UN-Habitat, in 2030 60% of the world population will live in urban areas and this percentage, more than half or the equivalent of 2,500 million people will do long-term conditioned by some type of structural poverty.
In little more than a generation, territorial imbalances caused by metropolitan conurbation processes functional desertification of rural areas, coupled with the increasing vulnerability of the urban population to the effects of climate change and the inertia of global economies may suggest a permanent social conflict scenario.
The city, space paradigm for the opportunity and knowledge, has to face the challenge of becoming the main stage on which the daily transit of the world population and therefore the first objective is to ensure that a third of its most vulnerable population will be able to contribute, and in the short-term, add value to the chain of local and global progress.
NSIC is aware of the historical moment in which we find ourselves. On the agility in making responsible decisions depend largely articulate traffic safely to new models of inclusive city environmentally or otherwise delve into the serious structural problems of the present. At this point, giving answers to the needs generated during the occupation and consolidation processes of informal urbanization of the territory must be a priority on the agendas of urban and regional governments on the planet.
NSIC considers the informal city a model as valid as the traditional city model. We are also aware that the future of humanity lies in the recognition of the urban informal paradigm survival space and opportunity for the most vulnerable.
Based on this recognition from NSIC we work with the aim of accelerating the transition from informal urban settlements evolved into models of inclusive city, environmentally sustainable and wealth generator and equity, with the potential value of the inhabits heritage and undoubtedly, are called to star in the urban revolution of the millennium.
