191-195 of 231 matching articles 5 20 100 All Rahul Mehrotra and the "kinetic city": designing for informality in Mumbai Kerwin Datu • 24 May 2010 Mumbai architect and MIT Professor of Architecture Rahul Mehrotra argues that the positive aspects of the kinetic city or bazaar city that Mumbai embodies must be embraced to overcome the false formal v. informal conception of the city and to turn density into economic opportunity. ANC's legitimacy to represent the poor challenged by local shack dwellers' movement IRIN • 21 April 2010 The rise of a "militant non-aligned social movement", Abahlali Basemjondolo, in KwaZulu-Natal has challenged the idea that the ANC represent the poor. Its well-organised protests have attracted violent police retaliation, unlike the marches organised by ANC-aligned trade unions. A composting toilet that supports fruit trees may solve Addis Ababa's sanitation problems IRIN • 20 April 2010 After an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in August 2009, authorities in Addis Ababa have surveyed the city's sanitation and found that nearly one in four residents have no access to latrines. A missed opportunity: reviewing UN-HABITAT's State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 report Kerwin Datu • 5 April 2010 UN-HABITAT's State of the World's Cities reports, like the World Bank's World Development Reports, do not so much document how the world has progressed from year to year as they do portray the evolving research interests of the two institutions. Reaching out to immigrants with "Red Scarf power" Birgit Heitfeld • 24 March 2010 Berlin's "Neighbourhood Mothers" programme reaches out to immigrants, suggests global model 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
