26-30 of 95 matching articles 5 20 100 All Why a 100-mile Paris metropole is just a rhetorical dream Kerwin Datu • 4 June 2010 Formally, rhetorically and economically, the 100-mile metropole touted by President Nicolas Sarkozy and his advisor Jacques Attali stands for a lot less than we would like to imagine. Explaining the fuel crisis hitting Nigeria's cities Kerwin Datu • 18 December 2009 Despite being one of the world's largest producers and exporters of oil, Nigeria has been gripped by fuel scarcity at its filling stations for a week. A round-up of articles attempting to explain the current crisis. The curtailing of London’s creative economy Zoe Green • 5 August 2015 Two years after the introduction of Permitted Development Rights, Zoe Green argues that the policy is threatening the local creative economy in UK cities by pricing out small and medium sized enterprises. India's new Model Residential Tenancy Act: a 'one-size' solution that hardly 'fits all' Robin Houterman • 5 June 2012 While India's new model tenancy act is praised as a liberal solution to the lack of affordable housing, Robin Houterman argues that it will worsen the shortage and weaken low-income households in Mumbai. Sana'a running out of water with no plan to save it IRIN • 23 March 2010 Yemen's world heritage capital city Sana'a is projected to run out of groundwater by 2017, but apart from off-hand proposals to relocate the city or pump desalinated water uphill from the coast, no real plans are in place to save the city in a worst-case scenario. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
