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26-30 of 130 matching articles 5 20 100 All Neither seen nor heard: South Asia's millions of home-based workers Shalini Sinha • 4 December 2012 Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions yet remain invisible in urban planning. Shalini Sinha argues that housing and zoning must be reconceived with a focus on home as workplace. The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 3: Jane Jacobs for the entitled, Robert Moses for everyone else Drew Reed • 1 April 2014 Drew Reed reports on plans to demolish informal areas in the Argentine capital and replace them with mixed housing and green space projects, and the life of one man at the centre of the struggle against these plans. Delhi choosing high-rise over consultative planning despite national consensus on slums Greg Randolph • 21 May 2013 The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) continues to shift thriving urban communities into lifeless high-rise residential towers, ignorant of the economic base the existing neighbouroods provide. Reinventing the shack will not get the poor out of slum conditions Kerwin Datu • 31 August 2010 Vijay Govindarajan's proposal to design a $300 one-room shed to solve the world's housing problems is riddled with stereotypes and prejudices. There are better models for Ahmedabad's slum redevelopment than Dharavi Carlin Carr • 1 November 2011 Rather than turn to Dharavi, Ahmedabad would do well to look amongst its own social entrepreneurs for models to rehouse the poor and integrate them into their new roles as homeowners. 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