76-80 of 105 matching articles 5 20 100 All How do you maintain a business when you work on the streets? The informal vendors of Yangon Zach Hyman • 17 July 2012 Accessing the space, power and storage facilities one needs to work as a street vendor poses a number of logistical problems. Zach Hyman visits informal workers in Yangon to learn how they solve them. Langa township, Cape Town: How do residents rebuild after a shack fire? Andrew Fleming • 3 April 2012 Another shack fire broke out in Cape Town last month, killing one woman and affecting 1,500 residents. Andrew Fleming reports on the City's response, residents' attitudes, and recent initiatives that may alleviate the problem. Spelling out the five 'P's of sustainable construction Dominik Baumann • 20 March 2012 To re-energise the idea of sustainable construction, the Holcim Foundation proposes five qualitative measures that will help make a building truly endure. How do we reconcile the planner's perceptions with the slum dwellers' reality? India's Rajiv Awas Yojana Mukta Naik • 13 March 2012 The Government of India has launched a grand housing scheme for a 'slum-free India'. But can grand schemes work when planners and policymakers neither understand the reality of the urban poor nor connect to their aspirations? Another round of elections, another round of unabashed populism in Mumbai Shilpa Rao and Anay Joglekar • 31 January 2012 There is no better time to witness the shortsightedness of governments than around elections. With municipal elections just around the corner in Mumbai, a whole raft of new promises are being made to certain slum dwellers... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
