36-40 of 71 matching articles 5 20 100 All Uganda piloting GIS technology to transform land management Jack Makau / Shack/Slum Dwellers International • 22 February 2011 An experiment to use GIS systems to capture real occupancy and ownership patterns in Uganda's cities, a major step towards formalising the interests of up to 200,000 households. Worst fears abated for World Cup relocations Benjamin Bradlow / Shack/Slum Dwellers International • 1 July 2010 Eviction of poor residents has been less than expected in the run-up to the World Cup in South Africa, but the urban poor have nonetheless seen little economic benefit from the event. 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. Pasig river cleanup looks murkier from slum dwellers' perspective Kerwin Datu • 30 April 2010 While Manila's corporate philanthropists such as the ABS-CBN Foundation are to be applauded for tackling some of the biggest development problems in the city, they need to become much more enterprising in how to solve those problems… "Highways, houses and hedges" or "trains, towers and trees"? Vishaan Chakrabarti's A Country of Cities Marc Norman • 9 July 2013 Vishaan Chakrabarti's new book A Country of Cities: a manifesto for an urban America, celebrates the Manhattanisation of US cities as an economically rational antidote to the damaging health and environmental effects of sprawl. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
