11-15 of 65 matching articles 5 20 100 All Mayors don't need the help of a World Association of Cities Andrew Stevens and Jonas Schorr • 3 September 2013 Andrew Stevens and Jonas Schorr remain unconvinced of the need for a World Association of Cities as Benjamin Barber proposes in his forthcoming book. No excuses slum upgrading in São Paulo Fernando Serpone Bueno and Veridiana Sedeh/Citiscope • 24 March 2010 In a fast-urbanising planet, São Paulo develops a model toolkit to improve housing for the poor and dispossessed. LSE Urban Age: Spatial planning one of few clear solutions for climate change Alia Dharssi • 20 November 2014 A well-planned response to the unprecedented expansion of cities may hold the key to responding to climate change and other challenges of the 21st century. The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 3: Jane Jacobs for the entitled, Robert Moses for everyone else Drew Reed • 1 April 2014 Drew Reed reports on plans to demolish informal areas in the Argentine capital and replace them with mixed housing and green space projects, and the life of one man at the centre of the struggle against these plans. The beginning or the end of the urban age? Kerwin Datu • 30 March 2010 Almost too many articles on urbanisation in the popular media today begin by citing the fact that the majority of the world's population now lives in urban areas, as of 2005, 2007, 2008 or 2009, depending often on when the writer started paying attention! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13