6-10 of 128 matching articles 5 20 100 All Shock therapy: the pacification of Rio de Janeiro's favelas Flavie Halais • 6 November 2012 Flavie Halais reports on the efficacy of the new Police Pacification Units cleaning up the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and asks why the city's authorities have chosen this time to step up the programme. Tracing a line through a fractured Palestine, from Arroub to Bethlehem Thayer Hastings • 13 August 2013 What should have been a simple walk to trace the route of an ancient aqueduct becomes fraught with geopolitical complexities as six hikers transgress the various spatial regulations that fragment the territory. Three alternatives for implementing rent control deregulation in Mumbai Robin Houterman • 26 June 2012 While rent control deregulation is needed in Mumbai, the MRTA being proposed will cause too much of a shock. Robin Houterman proposes three alternative strategies. Urban women organizing in the informal economy Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing • 22 July 2016 Over the next few weeks, The Global Urbanist, in collaboration with WIEGO will publish six photo essays that take us inside the daily lives of women working in the informal economy. Manila to relocate 500,000 informal residents ... but to where? Kerwin Datu • 30 August 2011 The Philippine government is planning to demolish 104,000 homes across Manila. Everyone involved knows that this is a bad idea, yet we have no international framework to stop them going ahead. 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