66-70 of 130 matching articles 5 20 100 All Still no hope for many of Harare's homeless IRIN • 5 June 2010 Life has never restabilised for many Zimbabwean families evicted under the notorious Operation Murambatsvina. Some were evicted a second time in 2008, terrorised by ZANU-PF militia during the election crisis. Where do city leaders go to learn from each other? Tim Campbell/Citiscope • 1 June 2010 Tim Campbell explains why city leaders are increasingly travelling abroad in search of new solutions: with little time or resources to reinvent the wheel, city leaders need to see solutions in action quickly. Rahul Mehrotra and the "kinetic city": designing for informality in Mumbai Kerwin Datu • 24 May 2010 Mumbai architect and MIT Professor of Architecture Rahul Mehrotra argues that the positive aspects of the kinetic city or bazaar city that Mumbai embodies must be embraced to overcome the false formal v. informal conception of the city and to turn density into economic opportunity. ANC's legitimacy to represent the poor challenged by local shack dwellers' movement IRIN • 21 April 2010 The rise of a "militant non-aligned social movement", Abahlali Basemjondolo, in KwaZulu-Natal has challenged the idea that the ANC represent the poor. Its well-organised protests have attracted violent police retaliation, unlike the marches organised by ANC-aligned trade unions. A composting toilet that supports fruit trees may solve Addis Ababa's sanitation problems IRIN • 20 April 2010 After an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in August 2009, authorities in Addis Ababa have surveyed the city's sanitation and found that nearly one in four residents have no access to latrines. 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
