5 matching jobs BSHF Research Officer (International Programme) Contributing Editor at The Global Urbanist Writer/Editor Director, Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) Director, Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF)
16-20 of 223 matching articles 5 20 100 All Africa's Urban Revolution, part 2: de-urbanisation is futile Kerwin Datu • 20 May 2014 Sean Fox's provocative new theory that urbanisation is driven by demographic transition, not by economic growth, and that even rural development initiatives will directly cause increased urban populations. Chinese development goes west, but is it the western Chinese who benefit? James Patterson-Waterston • 28 February 2012 James Patterson-Waterston revisits Xining and finds that China's plans to bring development to the west are proceeding at such pace that they threaten to marginalise traders and ethnic groups that bring life to the city. 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. Relocation policies do not excuse forced evictions, still a denial of human rights Kerwin Datu • 5 July 2010 Forced evictions are usually illegal, yet they are increasingly routine for many governments, assisted by international institutions. Rather than helping governments justify evictions, institutions need to steer governments towards true 'voluntarism'. From pancakes to clusters: why Shanghai needs fiscal decentralisation to achieve its sustainability plans Sebastian Schulz • 11 December 2012 Sebastian Schulz describes how decentralisation without fiscal powers is encouraging districts to undermine the master plan and overdevelop their territories. 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
