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166-170 of 244 matching articles 5 20 100 All How Detroit's emergency financial manager is needed to control infrastructure costs across the US Isidoros Kyrlangitses • 19 March 2013 Neither the right nor the left like the appointment of an emergency manager for Detroit, but he will be critical in calming the municipal bond market and preventing infrastructure costs from inflating. The death and life of Jane Jacobs critiques Oli Mould • 24 May 2011 Sharon Zukin's Naked City: the death and life of authentic urban places, reads like a character assassination of New York City, tearing through a few myths of Jane Jacobs' on the way. Corruption, conflict and disease: the consequences of water crises in slums IRIN • 23 March 2010 Two new reports this week renew focus on the growing possibility of water crises emerging in developing-world cities, and suggests a few 'quick wins' to stave off these long-term threats with cheap, low-tech solutions. Flaneuring on the marble: what are these malls that are Delhi's new public spaces? Yorim Spoelder • 4 March 2014 What exactly are these places that are becoming proxies for public space, an otherwise rare commodity in Delhi? Letting no detail escape his eye, Yorim Spoelder goes flaneuring in the mall. Learning from 5 Pointz: what the graffiti mecca teaches us about the creation of public space Matt DelSesto • 8 April 2014 The famed warehouse site in Queens, destroyed definitively last year, highlighted precisely how we engage democratically in the creation of public space, especially those that suggest alternative ways of forming a "public". 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 48 49