1-5 of 50 matching articles 5 20 100 All Baan Mankong and Wat Khao: the community-driven programme building resilience to natural disasters in Thailand Natalia Gaerlan • 19 November 2013 Natalia Gaerlan visits a poor community in northern-central Thailand that has taught itself resilience in the face of recurring flooding. The creation of polarised space: Martyrs' Square, Beirut Tanya Gallo • 17 January 2012 Martyrs' Square was the focal point for the 2005 demonstrations that saw Syria relinquish control of Lebanon. How do its citizens now regard this polarising space, and how should placemakers respond? Tanya Gallo investigates. The knowledge gap dividing the two halves of the World Urban Forum in Medellín Laura Cesafsky • 22 April 2014 Reviewing UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum held in Medellín last week, Laura Cesafsky hears two camps talking past each other on the lack of scientific knowledge underpinning the New Urban Agenda. Sustainable is not enough: a call for regenerative cities Anna Leidreiter • 31 January 2012 Because so much damage has already been done to the world’s ecosystems, we need to start thinking of regenerative rather than just sustainable urban development. "We can buy ourselves 300 years" say planners on fighting rising sea levels in delta cities Anthony Flint/Citiscope • 16 June 2010 As coastal and delta cities face the impacts of rising sea levels due to climate change, planners are readying with a combination of sea wall solutions, ecological engineering and urban design, which one says will buy us three centuries of security. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
