66-70 of 128 matching articles 5 20 100 All Neither seen nor heard: South Asia's millions of home-based workers Shalini Sinha • 4 December 2012 Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions yet remain invisible in urban planning. Shalini Sinha argues that housing and zoning must be reconceived with a focus on home as workplace. How do you maintain a business when you work on the streets? The informal vendors of Yangon Zach Hyman • 17 July 2012 Accessing the space, power and storage facilities one needs to work as a street vendor poses a number of logistical problems. Zach Hyman visits informal workers in Yangon to learn how they solve them. India's new Model Residential Tenancy Act: a 'one-size' solution that hardly 'fits all' Robin Houterman • 5 June 2012 While India's new model tenancy act is praised as a liberal solution to the lack of affordable housing, Robin Houterman argues that it will worsen the shortage and weaken low-income households in Mumbai. Chinese development goes west, but is it the western Chinese who benefit? James Patterson-Waterston • 28 February 2012 James Patterson-Waterston revisits Xining and finds that China's plans to bring development to the west are proceeding at such pace that they threaten to marginalise traders and ethnic groups that bring life to the city. Post-war reconstruction sowing new divisions in Beirut Tanya Gallo • 10 January 2012 In the first of three articles, Tanya Gallo explores the capitalist redevelopment of downtown Beirut, and how it is threatening to create new segregations between the wealthy and the general public. 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
