21-25 of 134 matching articles 5 20 100 All The knowledge gap dividing the two halves of the World Urban Forum in Medellín Laura Cesafsky • 22 April 2014 Reviewing UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum held in Medellín last week, Laura Cesafsky hears two camps talking past each other on the lack of scientific knowledge underpinning the New Urban Agenda. DAMPA: Making noise and putting police to work for women in Manila Faranak Miraftab • 14 March 2013 Faranak Miraftab gives the floor to members of DAMPA, a grassroots women's organisation with some rather sound strategies for raising awareness and sensitising police officers. 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. Here to stay: the daily challenges facing Shanghai's 'floating population' Sebastian Schulz • 23 October 2012 Sebastian Schulz meets the informal street vendors and motorcycle taxi drivers of Shanghai and learns how they face daily discrimination at the hands of local police and the hukou household registration system. An urban exemplar in the Middle East: Doha, Qatar Zoe Green • 1 May 2012 Doha is part of Qatar's push to become an urban exemplar for the region, diversifying away from an oil-based economy by investing in education, enterprise, sport, transport and the quality of the public realm. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
