Flavie Halais takes us to the old port of Rio de Janeiro, where the city's first public-private partnership, Porto Maravilha, is recreating the neighbourhood for international consumption in time for the World Cup and Olympic Games, threatening the birthplace of samba and the life of the city's oldest favelas.
Witness' documentary People Before Profit portrays forced evictions around the world, expressing the trauma that citizens feel when their homes and possessions are violently taken from them.
The Economist conference 'Future Cities: managing Africa's urban transformation' was held in Lagos last month. A rosy picture for foreign investors, but what kind of future is being offered the ordinary African?
Africa is not urbanising as rapidly as we think. What are the implications for the business world, or for the possibilities for local economic development?
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Flavie Halais (@flaviehalais) is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker in Montreal. She is currently conducting research on the impact of mega-events…
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