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11-15 of 173 matching articles 5 20 100 All Medellín: an urban facelift that's more than skin deep Flavie Halais • 27 November 2012 Eye-catching new architecture is emblematic of Medellín's transformation, but behind it is a program of social and physical interventions and security improvements as Flavie Halais reports. Next stop Villa 31: the politics of placing a subway station in a Buenos Aires slum Drew Reed • 30 April 2013 A new subway line through an old informal neighbourhood in Buenos Aires is shaping up to be a political battle between social idealism and engineering pragmatism as Drew Reed discovers. On London's dying libraries: where will future public intellectuals grow? Zung Nguyen • 3 April 2017 With libraries increasingly likely to shutter their doors in the digital age, Zung Nguyen discusses the risks London faces as it emphasises public housing over other kinds of social institutions. Past is more than prologue: how today's urban reformers should learn from history Daniel London • 16 October 2012 Historian Daniel London argues that today's civil leaders could learn a lot from previous generations of social workers who had very similar ideas--and implemented them. There are better models for Ahmedabad's slum redevelopment than Dharavi Carlin Carr • 1 November 2011 Rather than turn to Dharavi, Ahmedabad would do well to look amongst its own social entrepreneurs for models to rehouse the poor and integrate them into their new roles as homeowners. 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
