151-155 of 227 matching articles 5 20 100 All 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. The City Effect: rapid urbanisation raises questions about how much urban government is enough Alia Dharssi • 17 February 2015 The idea of empowering city governments is a thrown around a lot these days in urbanite circles. But where should the line between local and higher levels of government begin and end? Alia Dharssi reports on the debate. Planning in Baghdad: how years of conflict have shaped the design of the city Sebastian Schulz and Niran Banna • 22 January 2015 After spending over six years conducting research on urban planning in Iraq, Sebastian Schulz and Niran Banna explore how war and terrorism turned a once-cosmopolitan city into a divided metropolis. How street vendors and urban planners can work together Sally Roever • 13 November 2012 Sally Roever shows how an inclusive attitude towards street vendors and an understanding of how they fit into the urban economy and streetscape has improved livelihoods dramatically. Problems of Cape Town's outlying townships demand strategies to densify the centre Andrew Fleming • 11 October 2011 To help solve the problems of its dense peripheral regions, Cape Town needs increase residential densities in the inner suburbs to give more residents a chance to benefit from the jobs and services they provide. 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 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46