201-205 of 227 matching articles 5 20 100 All What's a national urban policy for? Three scenarios for Australian cities Kerwin Datu • 1 March 2011 A national urban policy must set the strategy for the national urban system--the balancing of small, medium and large cities--and offer a 'global city' future for Australia's regional cities and outer suburban centres. The pros and cons of relocating a capital city Kerwin Datu • 11 January 2011 Transferring the national government to a new city is an escapism that won't solve Jakarta's problems. Children live on bread alone as poverty expands in Cairo IRIN • 24 June 2010 Recent research has demonstrated that official counts of poverty in Cairo are grossly underestimated. As if climate change flooding wasn't enough: preparing Dhaka for a major earthquake IRIN • 18 June 2010 Aware that an earthquake like Haiti's could strike Dhaka, a city seven times more populous, engineers and government leaders in the Bangladeshi capital are discussing how to reinforce buildings and prepare emergency services, to prevent tragedy on an unimaginable scale. "We can buy ourselves 300 years" say planners on fighting rising sea levels in delta cities Anthony Flint/Citiscope • 16 June 2010 As coastal and delta cities face the impacts of rising sea levels due to climate change, planners are readying with a combination of sea wall solutions, ecological engineering and urban design, which one says will buy us three centuries of security. 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
