36-40 of 134 matching articles 5 20 100 All Politics needs to be part of the global urban agenda Kerwin Datu • 14 April 2011 Authorities meet in Nairobi this week to set the agenda for UN-HABITAT, but domestic politics makes a lot of that agenda impossible. How can we put domestic politics back on the table? Children live on bread alone as poverty expands in Cairo IRIN • 24 June 2010 Recent research has demonstrated that official counts of poverty in Cairo are grossly underestimated. How grassroots women are raising awareness and enlisting authorities against growing violence in Peru Elizabeth L. Sweet • 18 March 2013 Elizabeth L. Sweet talks to three grassroots leaders in Lima who explain how violence against women is on the rise in Peru, and the techniques they use to address it. India's Kumbh Mela festival: the world's largest pop-up city Kristen Teutonico • 11 March 2013 As the Kumbh Mela festival closes in Allahabad, Kristen Teutonico wonders why the lessons of this pop-up city aren't being applied to India's permanent mega-cities. Istanbul and Rio protests show that "cities matter", but urbanists shouldn't be too triumphant Kerwin Datu • 25 June 2013 It's too easy to overlay an urbanist narrative onto the past month's protests. It's more important to see how the protests contradict even some pro-urban discourses, and to reform the world's police forces. 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
