131-135 of 244 matching articles 5 20 100 All Bullish on Africa's cities: the case of Khartoum, Sudan Kerwin Datu • 1 February 2011 The international community is increasingly optimistic about the wealth generated in Africa's cities. But with rising slum populations projected from the same trends, how shall the former overcome the latter? Planning in Baghdad: how years of conflict have shaped the design of the city Sebastian Schulz and Niran Banna • 22 January 2015 After spending over six years conducting research on urban planning in Iraq, Sebastian Schulz and Niran Banna explore how war and terrorism turned a once-cosmopolitan city into a divided metropolis. India's Kumbh Mela festival: the world's largest pop-up city Kristen Teutonico • 11 March 2013 As the Kumbh Mela festival closes in Allahabad, Kristen Teutonico wonders why the lessons of this pop-up city aren't being applied to India's permanent mega-cities. Last samba in Rio: sanitising the Olympic city's historic port Flavie Halais • 18 December 2012 Flavie Halais takes us to the old port of Rio de Janeiro, where the city's first PPP is threatening the birthplace of samba and the life of the city's oldest favelas. 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. 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