6-10 of 38 matching articles 5 20 100 All The mega-regions of Africa in global perspective: an interview with Edgar Pieterse Kerwin Datu • 24 March 2010 On the occasion of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Kerwin Datu speaks with Professor Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, on retheorising the African city, the politics of Africa's mega-regions… 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. RAINS: a surprisingly simple answer to Yemen's water crisis that's ready to scale up? Najiyah Alwazir • 15 May 2012 Sana'a, the capital of Yemen and facing one of the most severe water crises of any city in the world, may have an answer in a startlingly simple project to help households collect their own rainwater. Where do city leaders go to learn from each other? Tim Campbell/Citiscope • 1 June 2010 Tim Campbell explains why city leaders are increasingly travelling abroad in search of new solutions: with little time or resources to reinvent the wheel, city leaders need to see solutions in action quickly. Africa is not urbanising rapidly. Now what do we do? Kerwin Datu • 21 February 2012 Africa is not urbanising as rapidly as we think. What are the implications for the business world, or for the possibilities for local economic development? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
