236-240 of 250 matching articles 5 20 100 All Inspiring urbanists: John F. C. Turner and the right to control one's own housing process Miranda Iossifidis and Geoffrey Payne • 24 January 2012 There are many celebrated ideas and personalities in urban development, but how many survive the test of time? Two writers reflect on the legacy of John Turner, a quiet hero of global urbanism. Africa's Urban Revolution, part 2: de-urbanisation is futile Kerwin Datu • 20 May 2014 Sean Fox's provocative new theory that urbanisation is driven by demographic transition, not by economic growth, and that even rural development initiatives will directly cause increased urban populations. Colombo's growth pains: what is really meant by "rehabilitation"? Marco Picardi • 22 July 2014 Five years out from the civil war, Marco Picardi recalls his tour of the capital, where billboards paper over an all-too-common logic of modernisation, eviction, and lack of compensation. The criminalisation of homelessness and informal settlements in US cities Martha Bridegam • 4 December 2012 Martha Bridegam describes a recent increase in criminalising legislation and policing against homeless and informally housed Americans but asks, is this a short-term backlash against changes in the nature of US housing? Bangkok's home-based workers find strength in numbers Carlin Carr • 1 December 2016 In the third of a series of photo essays from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, Carlin Carr explores how workers in Bangkok’s informal economy came together in a collective movement to advocate for their labour rights. 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
