11-15 of 50 matching articles 5 20 100 All The reinvention of Matera: A city whose time has come? Marco Picardi • 13 May 2015 Marco Picardi reflects on the transformation of Matera from an impoverished city where people lived in caves a generation ago to Italy’s next European City of Culture Manila's slums brace for the typhoon season IRIN • 4 June 2010 Informal settlers have returned to the waterways and lakeside areas of Metro Manila since Typhoon Ketsana washed away thousands of homes last year. 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. Booming Maputo paves over its past Joseph Hammond • 20 October 2015 Joseph Hammond explains how the recent population explosion and sudden urban growth of Maputo has threatened the unique architectural heritage of the Mozambican capital. Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging secondary cities Lily Song • 29 April 2014 Lily Song learns how Tacloban and other secondary cities can improve their ability to cope with emergency challenges which would be daunting even for the world's largest mega-cities. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
