201-205 of 250 matching articles 5 20 100 All Are partial solutions to housing and transport one step forward or one step back? Andrew Fleming • 6 March 2012 Lots of 'solutions' get presented at events like the Urban and Housing Development conference in Cape Town, but can a model be sustainable if it excludes large parts of the city? Nothing super about the cycle superhighways with these targets! Joe Peach • 3 August 2010 A reality check on Boris Johnson's new cycle superhighways, noting that behind the scheme are ridership targets that remain paltry compared to northern European cities. Mixed views on the Blikkiesdorp relocation site in Cape Town IRIN • 29 April 2010 The ANC has built the large resettlement site of Blikkiesdorp to relocate residents during the World Cup, but also as part of the long term strategy to solve South Africa's housing crisis. "Merry-go-round" micro-finance keeps slum residents fed in Kibera IRIN • 13 April 2010 Working with CARE International, residents in Nairobi's Kibera slum have developed a lottery system to choose who benefits from their microfinance pool. The 'aughts': the decade that brought back infrastructure Alex Marshall/Citiwire • 11 April 2010 Writing from an American perspective, Alex Marshall argues that in a decade plagued by war and recession, one redeeming feature of the 'aughts' was that it got leaders around the world talking about infrastructure once again. 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
