191-195 of 244 matching articles 5 20 100 All Extract - Mogadishu Then and Now: the rise and fall of a historic city Rasna Warah and Mohamud Diriye • 30 May 2012 In this extract from their forthcoming book, Rasna Warah and Mohamud Diriye recount the history of Mogadishu from its origins in Arab and Persian trade to the outbreak of civil war in 1991. RAINS: a surprisingly simple answer to Yemen's water crisis that's ready to scale up? Najiyah Alwazir • 15 May 2012 Sana'a, the capital of Yemen and facing one of the most severe water crises of any city in the world, may have an answer in a startlingly simple project to help households collect their own rainwater. Are partial solutions to housing and transport one step forward or one step back? Andrew Fleming • 6 March 2012 Lots of 'solutions' get presented at events like the Urban and Housing Development conference in Cape Town, but can a model be sustainable if it excludes large parts of the city? Thinking positively about housing for World AIDS Day Noemi Reiner • 29 November 2011 While most are aware of the need for education and prevention, Noemi Reiner of ARCHIVE highlights the need for stable housing for people living with HIV/AIDS to lower transmission rates and reduce the physical and emotional risks of disease and stress. Problems of Cape Town's outlying townships demand strategies to densify the centre Andrew Fleming • 11 October 2011 To help solve the problems of its dense peripheral regions, Cape Town needs increase residential densities in the inner suburbs to give more residents a chance to benefit from the jobs and services they provide. 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
