141-145 of 250 matching articles 5 20 100 All Politics needs to be part of the global urban agenda Kerwin Datu • 14 April 2011 Authorities meet in Nairobi this week to set the agenda for UN-HABITAT, but domestic politics makes a lot of that agenda impossible. How can we put domestic politics back on the table? 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. 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. We've got more than a century of infrastructure spending to catch up on Kerwin Datu • 19 April 2010 That the world's leaders have renewed their focus on infrastructure in recent years is a good thing. Whether they can retain that focus long enough to overcome centuries of neglect by colonial and independent leaders is another matter. How Bangalore's non-profit sector is picking up the slack on technical capacity building Kerwin Datu • 14 December 2011 Governments in many places can exhibit a loss in the basic competencies required for effective urban planning. In the UK and India, some of the slack is picked up by the private and non-profit sectors, with surprising and innovative results. 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
