51-55 of 250 matching articles 5 20 100 All Through trial and error, 'smart cities' are slowly getting smarter Zoe Green • 14 December 2011 The 'smart city' concept has existed for several years, but only now, with some trial and error, are we seeing the real fruits of these efforts coming to light. The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 3: Jane Jacobs for the entitled, Robert Moses for everyone else Drew Reed • 1 April 2014 Drew Reed reports on plans to demolish informal areas in the Argentine capital and replace them with mixed housing and green space projects, and the life of one man at the centre of the struggle against these plans. The centre reigns supreme: how a polycentric urban plan for Beijing was lost Jinxi Chen • 10 July 2012 Jinxi Chen takes us on a modern history tour of Beijing's urban structure, arguing that Mao's efforts to rebuild the centre preserved a concentric structure that could not work well for contemporary Beijing. Next stop Villa 31: the politics of placing a subway station in a Buenos Aires slum Drew Reed • 30 April 2013 A new subway line through an old informal neighbourhood in Buenos Aires is shaping up to be a political battle between social idealism and engineering pragmatism as Drew Reed discovers. Has the "broken windows" theory of policing finally been fixed? Drew Reed • 12 September 2013 New research suggests that the successes of the "broken windows" theory in reducing crime might have been down to coincidences including, interestingly, the removal of lead from gasoline. 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
