96-100 of 100 matching articles 5 20 100 All The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 1: street markets and free markets Drew Reed • 28 January 2014 Drew Reed takes us on a walk through downtown Buenos Aires to see how the mayor Mauricio Macri's policy of formalising informal traders is being undermined by the free trade principles he normally espouses. The knowledge gap dividing the two halves of the World Urban Forum in Medellín Laura Cesafsky • 22 April 2014 Reviewing UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum held in Medellín last week, Laura Cesafsky hears two camps talking past each other on the lack of scientific knowledge underpinning the New Urban Agenda. Ending discriminatory development: a truly new Habitat III Agenda Kerwin Datu and Naik Lashermes • 22 April 2014 We propose mechanisms to resolve the conflict that arises in urban areas in a routine manner, with recommendations in the areas of democratisation, accountability, and statistical capacities. Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging secondary cities Lily Song • 29 April 2014 Lily Song learns how Tacloban and other secondary cities can improve their ability to cope with emergency challenges which would be daunting even for the world's largest mega-cities. The mega-regions of Africa in global perspective: an interview with Edgar Pieterse Kerwin Datu • 24 March 2010 On the occasion of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Kerwin Datu speaks with Professor Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, on retheorising the African city, the politics of Africa's mega-regions… 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
