246-250 of 250 matching articles 5 20 100 All Children live on bread alone as poverty expands in Cairo IRIN • 24 June 2010 Recent research has demonstrated that official counts of poverty in Cairo are grossly underestimated. Rahul Mehrotra and the "kinetic city": designing for informality in Mumbai Kerwin Datu • 24 May 2010 Mumbai architect and MIT Professor of Architecture Rahul Mehrotra argues that the positive aspects of the kinetic city or bazaar city that Mumbai embodies must be embraced to overcome the false formal v. informal conception of the city and to turn density into economic opportunity. Measuring the world's largest cities: the UN's latest revision of world urban population projections Kerwin Datu • 23 April 2010 A list of the world's largest urban agglomerations for 2010, following the release of UN-DESA's revised World Urbanization Prospects tabling population predictions for the world's cities. Sana'a running out of water with no plan to save it IRIN • 23 March 2010 Yemen's world heritage capital city Sana'a is projected to run out of groundwater by 2017, but apart from off-hand proposals to relocate the city or pump desalinated water uphill from the coast, no real plans are in place to save the city in a worst-case scenario. From egalitarianism to urbanism: notes on a moral philosophy of urban commentary Kerwin Datu • 16 September 2010 While governments remain focused on economic indicators and the image a city projects, writers who wish to remain egalitarian must discount both of these in favour of the basic needs of all people. 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
