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141-145 of 330 matching articles 5 20 100 All In favour of direct aid for cities Rowan Fraser • 14 October 2014 Despite growing numbers of international development organisations focused at the municipal level, donors are still reluctant to provide ODA directly to local governments. "We can buy ourselves 300 years" say planners on fighting rising sea levels in delta cities Anthony Flint/Citiscope • 16 June 2010 As coastal and delta cities face the impacts of rising sea levels due to climate change, planners are readying with a combination of sea wall solutions, ecological engineering and urban design, which one says will buy us three centuries of security. "Highways, houses and hedges" or "trains, towers and trees"? Vishaan Chakrabarti's A Country of Cities Marc Norman • 9 July 2013 Vishaan Chakrabarti's new book A Country of Cities: a manifesto for an urban America, celebrates the Manhattanisation of US cities as an economically rational antidote to the damaging health and environmental effects of sprawl. For Cairo's street vendors, the revolution is not yet fully won Does Vandousselaere • 21 March 2013 Cairo's street vendors have benefited from the turmoil of post-revolutionary Egypt, but their demands still fall on deaf ears at the national level. Can we still learn from a selective reading of history? Daniel London • 4 December 2012 Daniel London considers the charges laid down by Jamaal Green that the settlement house movement of the 19th century is marked by an undercurrent of racism and assimilationism. 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 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66