1-5 of 15 matching articles 5 20 100 All Where do city leaders go to learn from each other? Tim Campbell/Citiscope • 1 June 2010 Tim Campbell explains why city leaders are increasingly travelling abroad in search of new solutions: with little time or resources to reinvent the wheel, city leaders need to see solutions in action quickly. Legal battles and fraud claims stalling Kibera upgrade IRIN • 7 July 2010 Several months after residents of Kibera's 'Soweto East' settlement were decanted into temporary housing, the process of returning them to permanent housing is stalled by legal battles over ownership of the sites. Welcome to the Global Urbanist!! Kerwin Datu • 16 December 2009 Today we launch the Global Urbanist, an online newspaper on urban affairs from cities across the developed and developing world. Click through the headline to read a letter from the editorial team. Is Ahmedabad's Bus Rapid Transit system viable in Mumbai? Christie Thompson / Beyond Profit • 27 July 2010 At a recent conference on India's transportation, it was argued that the only thing Mumbai really needs to replicate the success of Ahmedabad's Bus Rapid Transit system is a change of attitude and political will. The death and life of Jane Jacobs critiques Oli Mould • 24 May 2011 Sharon Zukin's Naked City: the death and life of authentic urban places, reads like a character assassination of New York City, tearing through a few myths of Jane Jacobs' on the way. 1 2 3
