41-45 of 95 matching articles 5 20 100 All Reforming the world's city networks, part 1: a time to cull Andrew Stevens and Jonas Schorr • 11 April 2012 Andrew Stevens and Jonas Schorr survey the landscape of city networks and local government associations and call for some serious bureaucratic Darwinism to cull the overduplication of organisations. Lead agencies need to refocus on water and sanitation to prevent slums from growing Timeyin Uwejamomere • 25 October 2011 WaterAid's Timeyin Uwejamomere calls on lead agencies to reprioritise their water and sanitation expenditure on informal settlements to prevent slum conditions from spreading as urbanisation intensifies. The 'aughts': the decade that brought back infrastructure Alex Marshall/Citiwire • 11 April 2010 Writing from an American perspective, Alex Marshall argues that in a decade plagued by war and recession, one redeeming feature of the 'aughts' was that it got leaders around the world talking about infrastructure once again. Who will plan Africa's cities? Changing the way urban planning is taught in African universities Vanessa Watson and Babatunde Agbola • 26 November 2013 Vanessa Watson and Babatunde Agbola discuss how the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) hopes to transform the continent's planning paradigm starting with the professional education system. Baan Mankong and Wat Khao: the community-driven programme building resilience to natural disasters in Thailand Natalia Gaerlan • 19 November 2013 Natalia Gaerlan visits a poor community in northern-central Thailand that has taught itself resilience in the face of recurring flooding. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19