21-25 of 71 matching articles 5 20 100 All Seeking a global urban agenda: The Global Urbanist Debates Kerwin Datu • 22 November 2011 Who sets the global urban agenda? What are the world's urban priorities? What should they be? Three international experts and a roomful of readers battled out these questions and more. No excuses slum upgrading in São Paulo Fernando Serpone Bueno and Veridiana Sedeh/Citiscope • 24 March 2010 In a fast-urbanising planet, São Paulo develops a model toolkit to improve housing for the poor and dispossessed. Righting the ship of good urban planning: Newport News rediscovers the wisdom of its street grids Andy Carr • 16 July 2013 After decades of shipyard expansion, suburban sprawl and segregation, the city is doing its best to learn from its original street grid and reintegrate its neighbourhoods. 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. Time to question India's assumptions about affordable housing Greg Randolph • 29 January 2013 From Western rules of thumb about the affordability of mortgages to an obsession with high-rise private sector developments, India's approach to affordable housing is full of hopelessly outdated assumptions. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
