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91-95 of 140 matching articles 5 20 100 All An urban exemplar in the Middle East: Doha, Qatar Zoe Green • 1 May 2012 Doha is part of Qatar's push to become an urban exemplar for the region, diversifying away from an oil-based economy by investing in education, enterprise, sport, transport and the quality of the public realm. Reflecting on Dharavi: supporting slums as centres for economic growth Julius Gatune, Dinh The Phong and Carlin Carr • 18 October 2011 While economic development policies might contradict and undermine the needs of the urban poor, slums like Dharavi may incubate industries that can export to the world and should be embraced. Boston, Boylston Street, and the healing of an urban wound Sam Valentine • 3 June 2014 Unlike a wound to the body, the marks left behind a wound to a city may be of the city's own designs, in the form of a memorial. A memorial which Sam Valentine argues is now needed to restore dignity to the act of remembrance. Colombo's growth pains: what is really meant by "rehabilitation"? Marco Picardi • 22 July 2014 Five years out from the civil war, Marco Picardi recalls his tour of the capital, where billboards paper over an all-too-common logic of modernisation, eviction, and lack of compensation. Happiness and misery on five dollars, one dollar, or fifteen cents a day Kerwin Datu • 6 December 2011 There is much happiness and much misery amongst the urban poor, as these portraits of three households in Manila testify. The point is not to draw lines between them, but to accept that poverty has several gradations, all of which require assistance. 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
