146-150 of 231 matching articles 5 20 100 All Time to question India's assumptions about affordable housing Greg Randolph • 29 January 2013 From Western rules of thumb about the affordability of mortgages to an obsession with high-rise private sector developments, India's approach to affordable housing is full of hopelessly outdated assumptions. Beware a selective reading of history: a response to the call for civic unity Jamaal Green • 4 December 2012 City planner Jamaal Green warns us not to forget the undercurrents of racism and assimilationism present in the settlement house and social centre movements of a century ago. Shock therapy: the pacification of Rio de Janeiro's favelas Flavie Halais • 6 November 2012 Flavie Halais reports on the efficacy of the new Police Pacification Units cleaning up the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and asks why the city's authorities have chosen this time to step up the programme. Politics needs to be part of the global urban agenda Kerwin Datu • 14 April 2011 Authorities meet in Nairobi this week to set the agenda for UN-HABITAT, but domestic politics makes a lot of that agenda impossible. How can we put domestic politics back on the table? Uganda piloting GIS technology to transform land management Jack Makau / Shack/Slum Dwellers International • 22 February 2011 An experiment to use GIS systems to capture real occupancy and ownership patterns in Uganda's cities, a major step towards formalising the interests of up to 200,000 households. 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 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
