71-75 of 128 matching articles 5 20 100 All The economics of "free housing" in Mumbai: time for a new discourse Sharmeen Contractor and Shilpa Rao • 10 May 2011 The current slum rehabilitation scheme creates incentives for developers to distort the housing market; civil society must challenge the rhetoric of 'free housing' to allow leaders to consider alternatives. How ill-conceived land regulations have choked Mumbai Sharmeen Contractor and Shilpa Rao • 26 April 2011 How badly designed land regulations have backfired time and again, ballooning the price of land and forcing millions into the informal sector. Inequality between Detroit and its suburbs is crossing the line Jay Walljasper / Citiwire • 16 August 2010 Jay Walljasper takes a tour from one side of a street to another, alarmed that society could allow such disparities that between struggling Detroit and its affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe. Alan Gilbert and the future of urban development geography Kerwin Datu • 25 June 2010 As colleagues and past students celebrate the career of the British geographer Alan Gilbert, Kerwin Datu reflects on the direction of research into urban poverty… How should private developers take responsibility for Manila? Kerwin Datu • 14 June 2010 Manila's urban landscape is characterised by ineffective government planning alongside strong, ambitious private sector developers. Arguably, the city will only develop economically if the private sector takes over the role of planning the whole metropolis. 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
