156-160 of 279 matching articles 5 20 100 All Welcome to the Global Urbanist!! Kerwin Datu • 16 December 2009 Today we launch the Global Urbanist, an online newspaper on urban affairs from cities across the developed and developing world. Click through the headline to read a letter from the editorial team. The right to proximity: understanding the World Urban Forum's "Right to the City" Kerwin Datu • 22 March 2010 The World Urban Forum opens today in Rio de Janeiro, under the slogan "Right to the City: bridging the urban divide." Recent advances in urban economics allow us to see that this is a fundamental part of how cities function, not a radical concept. Neighbourhood groups defend scarce public parks in Buenos Aires Letty Reimerink • 27 March 2017 With so many battles to wage, might the government's divide-and-conquer strategy be winning out? The reinvention of Matera: A city whose time has come? Marco Picardi • 13 May 2015 Marco Picardi reflects on the transformation of Matera from an impoverished city where people lived in caves a generation ago to Italy’s next European City of Culture Violence against poor and marginalised women is violence against humanity Patricia Chaves and Suzana Maranhão • 7 March 2013 Patricia Chaves and Suzana Maranhão demonstrate how easily institutions can oppress the communities they should be protecting. 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 50 51 52 53 54 55 56