61-65 of 251 matching articles 5 20 100 All Measuring the world's largest cities: the UN's latest revision of world urban population projections Kerwin Datu • 23 April 2010 A list of the world's largest urban agglomerations for 2010, following the release of UN-DESA's revised World Urbanization Prospects tabling population predictions for the world's cities. How do we reconcile the planner's perceptions with the slum dwellers' reality? India's Rajiv Awas Yojana Mukta Naik • 13 March 2012 The Government of India has launched a grand housing scheme for a 'slum-free India'. But can grand schemes work when planners and policymakers neither understand the reality of the urban poor nor connect to their aspirations? 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. Planning in Baghdad: how years of conflict have shaped the design of the city Sebastian Schulz and Niran Banna • 22 January 2015 After spending over six years conducting research on urban planning in Iraq, Sebastian Schulz and Niran Banna explore how war and terrorism turned a once-cosmopolitan city into a divided metropolis. Urban farming more profitable than white-collar jobs for many Congolese IRIN • 28 June 2011 Green space throughout Kinshasa is being transformed into lucrative small urban farming enterprises. 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
