241-244 of 244 matching articles 5 20 100 All LSE Urban Age: Spatial planning one of few clear solutions for climate change Alia Dharssi • 20 November 2014 A well-planned response to the unprecedented expansion of cities may hold the key to responding to climate change and other challenges of the 21st century. The City Effect: rapid urbanisation raises questions about how much urban government is enough Alia Dharssi • 17 February 2015 The idea of empowering city governments is a thrown around a lot these days in urbanite circles. But where should the line between local and higher levels of government begin and end? Alia Dharssi reports on the debate. Happiness and misery on five dollars, one dollar, or fifteen cents a day Kerwin Datu • 6 December 2011 There is much happiness and much misery amongst the urban poor, as these portraits of three households in Manila testify. The point is not to draw lines between them, but to accept that poverty has several gradations, all of which require assistance. Bangkok's home-based workers find strength in numbers Carlin Carr • 1 December 2016 In the third of a series of photo essays from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, Carlin Carr explores how workers in Bangkok’s informal economy came together in a collective movement to advocate for their labour rights. 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
