Neither the right nor the left of Michigan politics likes the fact that the state governor has appointed an emergency financial manager to take control of the City of Detroit, but as Isidoros Kyrlangitses shows, the new manager will be critical in calming the municipal bond market and preventing infrastructure costs from inflating across the US.
Robert Bell lays out the case for intelligent communities--cities like Austin that go beyond the application of ICT for greater efficiency to using technology to improve education levels and train up their workforce for the knowledge-based digital economy.
Zach Hyman travels to Wanyuan in China's Sichuan Province to see the creativity of the drivers of agricultural vehicles as the landscape urbanises around them.
Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions yet remain invisible in urban planning. Shalini Sinha argues that housing and zoning must be reconceived with a focus on home as workplace.
Cara Courage shows how an enlightened government can recognise an informal sector as an economic asset and support its workers, as is the case with Brighton's support of its arts and creative industries.
A multi-stakeholder dialogue about opportunities and barriers in and for cities to become future-just and regenerative habitats.
Sceptical of the narrative that cities have wholeheartedly embraced urban gardening, Matt DelSesto spies a connection between city crackdowns on urban gardens and police crackdowns in poor communities.
This year we have been compelled to denounce evictions and discrimination, but have also heard the call that questions of identity cannot be sidestepped.
Cairo's street vendors have benefited from the turmoil of post-revolutionary Egypt, but their demands still fall on deaf ears at the national level.
San Francisco is developing a new paradigm for car parking with meter prices set by market demand and apps to allow drivers to find spaces and pay for them on their smartphone, with New York following in its wake.
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Derry's efforts to remember the events of Bloody Sunday are evolving from keeping aflame old resentments to creating symbols of peace and reconciliation as Samuel Burke discovers.
Zach Hyman is a Fulbright scholar conducting research into the dynamics of grassroots innovation of agricultural machinery and its changing role…
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Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, and researchers.
