36-40 of 147 matching articles 5 20 100 All Loss of Cape Town farmland will be an irreversible threat to food security Tamsin Faragher • 2 October 2013 The proposal to turn some of Cape Town's last remaining farmland over to urban development would be an irreversible loss of agricultural assets and a threat to the city's food security. Are partial solutions to housing and transport one step forward or one step back? Andrew Fleming • 6 March 2012 Lots of 'solutions' get presented at events like the Urban and Housing Development conference in Cape Town, but can a model be sustainable if it excludes large parts of the city? The four keys to urban expansion identified at the World Urban Forum Kerwin Datu • 11 September 2012 Global urban policy and quantitative research are converging on a single conclusion: that spatial planning of new urban expansion areas is one of the most important tasks to make urbanisation sustainable. Shutting in the poor: Beijing's policy for sealing rural migrants into urban villages Constance Bréhaut • 4 December 2012 Rural villages absorbed into China's cities have become thriving rental markets for rural migrants. Beijing's "sealed management" policy seeks to bring them back under state control, as Constance Bréhaut describes. Politics needs to be part of the global urban agenda Kerwin Datu • 14 April 2011 Authorities meet in Nairobi this week to set the agenda for UN-HABITAT, but domestic politics makes a lot of that agenda impossible. How can we put domestic politics back on the table? 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
