151-155 of 231 matching articles 5 20 100 All What's wrong with renting? Home ownership not the only solution for India's slum dwellers Asako Matsukawa / Beyond Profit • 9 July 2010 Governments often assume that home ownership is the main tool for housing their urban poor, but this neglects the usefulness of renting, which is important at all income levels. Worst fears abated for World Cup relocations Benjamin Bradlow / Shack/Slum Dwellers International • 1 July 2010 Eviction of poor residents has been less than expected in the run-up to the World Cup in South Africa, but the urban poor have nonetheless seen little economic benefit from the event. Nightclubs are here to stay, it's just the misogyny that should go Frances Brill • 28 May 2013 Wrongheaded to steer young people from clubbing to less alcohol-fuelled pursuits like theatre, since this does nothing to end the culture of victimisation that remains in the clubs themselves. Why being in the middle of nowhere is smarter than it used to be Robert Bell • 11 March 2014 Just as mass production moved into rural areas after its invention in cities, so too may high tech services move into the countryside as broadband spreads out into sparsely populated areas. The road to Habitat III: a wake-up call to the New Urban Agenda Kerwin Datu • 22 April 2014 We set out our intentions for the next two years leading to Habitat III in 2016, with a call to think beyond the tick-a-box approach to the Habitat Agenda currently being encouraged. 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
