111-115 of 265 matching articles 5 20 100 All Are cities really killing culture in China? Bart Orr • 4 February 2014 The argument that China's urbanisation is destroying its traditional culture belies a misplaced nostalgia through which Westerners perceive non-Western cultures. Beware a selective reading of history: a response to the call for civic unity Jamaal Green • 4 December 2012 City planner Jamaal Green warns us not to forget the undercurrents of racism and assimilationism present in the settlement house and social centre movements of a century ago. 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. 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. From pancakes to clusters: why Shanghai needs fiscal decentralisation to achieve its sustainability plans Sebastian Schulz • 11 December 2012 Sebastian Schulz describes how decentralisation without fiscal powers is encouraging districts to undermine the master plan and overdevelop their territories. 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 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53