6 matching regions Europe and Central Asia Southeast Asia and the Pacific Latin America and the Caribbean Africa and the Middle East Latin America and the Caribbean Europe and Central Asia
5 matching jobs BSHF Research Officer (International Programme) Director, Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) Director, Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) Writer/Editor Contributing Editor at The Global Urbanist
246-250 of 331 matching articles 5 20 100 All Are cities really killing culture in China? Bart Orr • 4 February 2014 The argument that China's urbanisation is destroying its traditional culture belies a misplaced nostalgia through which Westerners perceive non-Western cultures. 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? Welcome to Lagos: a documentary that's well overdue Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed • 11 May 2010 A native of Lagos now conducting research on informal employment in Nigeria, Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed argues that Welcome to Lagos is a long overdue acknowledgement to those people who move to Lagos to make a living; it is not meant to be a tourist guide to the city. The economics of "free housing" in Mumbai: time for a new discourse Sharmeen Contractor and Shilpa Rao • 10 May 2011 The current slum rehabilitation scheme creates incentives for developers to distort the housing market; civil society must challenge the rhetoric of 'free housing' to allow leaders to consider alternatives. 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 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 67
