6-10 of 58 matching articles 5 20 100 All The self-powered city and a new era of energy innovation David Roberts/Scientific American • 15 June 2010 Part of a four-part special on the future of cities, the Scientific American looks at the successes of Shock therapy: the pacification of Rio de Janeiro's favelas Flavie Halais • 6 November 2012 Flavie Halais reports on the efficacy of the new Police Pacification Units cleaning up the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and asks why the city's authorities have chosen this time to step up the programme. Will small religious towns in India like Omkareshwar find a way to alleviate infrastructure deficits? Chandan Chawla • 30 June 2015 While national and state tourism schemes will benefit limited destinations of utmost importance for India, small towns like Omkareshwar will have to look at alternative possibilities to alleviate infrastructure deficits. DfID withdrawal from UN-HABITAT displays naivety on slums Kerwin Datu • 29 March 2011 DfID's decision to withdraw from UN-HABITAT demonstrates an ignorance of the contradictions in the mainstream development agenda, and the intractability of the problems facing urban areas. The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 3: Jane Jacobs for the entitled, Robert Moses for everyone else Drew Reed • 1 April 2014 Drew Reed reports on plans to demolish informal areas in the Argentine capital and replace them with mixed housing and green space projects, and the life of one man at the centre of the struggle against these plans. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
