16-19 of 19 matching articles 5 20 100 All Manila's slums brace for the typhoon season IRIN • 4 June 2010 Informal settlers have returned to the waterways and lakeside areas of Metro Manila since Typhoon Ketsana washed away thousands of homes last year. The protests are over, but Bangkok residents will struggle to rebuild their lives IRIN • 20 May 2010 While the Thai army secure the final outposts of the Red Shirt protesters, residents and informal workers who relied on the businesses and trade of the Ratchaprasong district must now struggle to rebuild their livelihoods amidst the burnt-out buildings and shopping malls. Manila slipping in plans to protect against potential 7.2 earthquake IRIN • 19 March 2010 The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has warned that an earthquake preparedness plan it drew up with the MMDA and JICA in 2004 has not been properly implemented, leaving the city vulnerable to the possibility of an earthquake the magnitude of Haiti's. Boston, Boylston Street, and the healing of an urban wound Sam Valentine • 3 June 2014 Unlike a wound to the body, the marks left behind a wound to a city may be of the city's own designs, in the form of a memorial. A memorial which Sam Valentine argues is now needed to restore dignity to the act of remembrance. 1 2 3 4
