76-80 of 250 matching articles 5 20 100 All Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging secondary cities Lily Song • 29 April 2014 Lily Song learns how Tacloban and other secondary cities can improve their ability to cope with emergency challenges which would be daunting even for the world's largest mega-cities. Vila Autódromo: one community taking a stand against Olympic gentrification in Rio de Janeiro Maureen M. Donaghy • 25 September 2012 A visit to the community that is challenging the Rio government's redevelopment plans for the Olympic Park site with its own People's Plan that promises to be more cost effective. Baan Mankong and Wat Khao: the community-driven programme building resilience to natural disasters in Thailand Natalia Gaerlan • 19 November 2013 Natalia Gaerlan visits a poor community in northern-central Thailand that has taught itself resilience in the face of recurring flooding. 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. Ranking 'Creative Cities': an exercise in futility? Oli Mould • 2 August 2010 Oli Mould reflects on the tendency for policies that seek to boost a city's ranking on 'creative city' league tables to paper over the people and processes responsible for creativity. 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
