236-240 of 244 matching articles 5 20 100 All The Global Urban Agenda - 16 May 2010 Kerwin Datu • 16 May 2010 Monthly reflections from The Global Urbanist. This month's topic: the international relations of cities. This article was first released as an email newsletter on Sunday, 16 May 2010 to our subscribers, and posted here on Friday, 28 May. It's the Nigerian government clinging to colonial ideas, not the makers of BBC2 documentary 'Welcome to Lagos' Kerwin Datu • 4 May 2010 The Nigerian government is demonstrating a strangely Eurocentric mindset in its display of anger over the BBC2 documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which shows only a people who are resourceful, enterprising, organised and content. In defence of America's informal settlements: the campers of San Francisco Martha Bridegam • 20 November 2012 We tend to believe that wealthy countries don't have informal settlements. Not only is this false, but it allows western governments to further marginalise an already misunderstood community. Loss of Cape Town farmland will be an irreversible threat to food security Tamsin Faragher • 2 October 2013 The proposal to turn some of Cape Town's last remaining farmland over to urban development would be an irreversible loss of agricultural assets and a threat to the city's food security. Opposition to a Delhi mega mall shows that voice matters but that class matters equally Yorim Spoelder • 4 February 2014 In what appears to be a conventional story of resistance to a mall, Yorim Spoelder reaches the conclusion that the middle classes are listened to far more readily than slum residents. 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
