16-20 of 95 matching articles 5 20 100 All Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging secondary cities Lily Song • 29 April 2014 Lily Song learns how Tacloban and other secondary cities can improve their ability to cope with emergency challenges which would be daunting even for the world's largest mega-cities. What the Habitat III Agenda fails to consider Kerwin Datu and Naik Lashermes • 22 April 2014 We argue that the Habitat III Agenda currently on the table comprises several serious omissions, including any acknowledgement that conflict routinely arises in urban areas. 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. The Draw of Difference Julia Borowicz • 21 August 2016 Looking at the recent transformation of Williamsburg in New-York, Julia Borowicz questions the perceived authenticity of trendy post-industrial neighbourhoods. She invites us to look beyond the aesthetic, and understands what makes attractive spaces. Urban prosperity doesn't automatically mean gender equality Sylvia Chant and Kerwin Datu • 27 September 2011 While there is a strong relationship between increasing urbanisation and increasing prosperity, it cannot be assumed that inequalities such as gender are reduced at the same time. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
