146-150 of 173 matching articles 5 20 100 All How do we reconcile the planner's perceptions with the slum dwellers' reality? India's Rajiv Awas Yojana Mukta Naik • 13 March 2012 The Government of India has launched a grand housing scheme for a 'slum-free India'. But can grand schemes work when planners and policymakers neither understand the reality of the urban poor nor connect to their aspirations? Rumour has it that Dubai has collapsed... Michele Acuto • 18 October 2011 ...but with the Al Maktoum International Airport, the logistics centre in Jebel Ali, and a flourishing of small-scale economic life, evidence would suggest otherwise, as Michele Acuto observes. Putting Johannesburg's slum tenements back in order IRIN • 14 June 2011 Abandoned by owners in the post-Apartheid years, 1,500 buildings in Johannesburg have turned into overcrowded tenements. Cape Town can save itself - Counter Currents: experiments in sustainability Miranda Iossifidis • 7 April 2011 Edgar Pieterse's Counter Currents presents a radical project of optimism, bringing into collision the work of architects, planners, and more to explore new possibilities for the city's self-image. Unjamming Nairobi Seth Kerr • 8 March 2016 Seth Kerr describes how new policies slowly tackle Nairobi’s gridlock and make it easier for people to walk and cycle. 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
