1-5 of 100 matching articles 5 20 100 All The waterline is rising on environmental risks threatening Bangkok's successful MRT Rowan Fraser • 23 July 2013 Bangkok's MRT deploys simple measures for effective flood risk control, however, with expansions planned, concern is emerging over its responses to climate change, earthquake risk and rising sea levels. Not to be taken for granted: what informal waste pickers offer the urban economy Sonia Dias • 27 November 2012 Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental benefits of including informal waste pickers in planning. "Highways, houses and hedges" or "trains, towers and trees"? Vishaan Chakrabarti's A Country of Cities Marc Norman • 9 July 2013 Vishaan Chakrabarti's new book A Country of Cities: a manifesto for an urban America, celebrates the Manhattanisation of US cities as an economically rational antidote to the damaging health and environmental effects of sprawl. From egalitarianism to urbanism: notes on a moral philosophy of urban commentary Kerwin Datu • 16 September 2010 While governments remain focused on economic indicators and the image a city projects, writers who wish to remain egalitarian must discount both of these in favour of the basic needs of all people. Sustainable is not enough: a call for regenerative cities Anna Leidreiter • 31 January 2012 Because so much damage has already been done to the world’s ecosystems, we need to start thinking of regenerative rather than just sustainable urban development. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
