46-50 of 65 matching articles 5 20 100 All Chinese development goes west, but is it the western Chinese who benefit? James Patterson-Waterston • 28 February 2012 James Patterson-Waterston revisits Xining and finds that China's plans to bring development to the west are proceeding at such pace that they threaten to marginalise traders and ethnic groups that bring life to the city. Rumour has it that Dubai has collapsed... Michele Acuto • 18 October 2011 ...but with the Al Maktoum International Airport, the logistics centre in Jebel Ali, and a flourishing of small-scale economic life, evidence would suggest otherwise, as Michele Acuto observes. The economics of "free housing" in Mumbai: time for a new discourse Sharmeen Contractor and Shilpa Rao • 10 May 2011 The current slum rehabilitation scheme creates incentives for developers to distort the housing market; civil society must challenge the rhetoric of 'free housing' to allow leaders to consider alternatives. How ill-conceived land regulations have choked Mumbai Sharmeen Contractor and Shilpa Rao • 26 April 2011 How badly designed land regulations have backfired time and again, ballooning the price of land and forcing millions into the informal sector. How can Detroit stop speculators from blocking its consolidation plan? Isidoros Kyrlangitses • 8 March 2011 Mayor Bing has been trying to resume and demolish blighted neighbourhoods, but is being frustrated by speculators. How might the Land bank be used to redistribute land and skirt the problem? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
