51-55 of 253 matching articles 5 20 100 All Shutting in the poor: Beijing's policy for sealing rural migrants into urban villages Constance BrĂ©haut • 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 BrĂ©haut describes. Here to stay: the daily challenges facing Shanghai's 'floating population' Sebastian Schulz • 23 October 2012 Sebastian Schulz meets the informal street vendors and motorcycle taxi drivers of Shanghai and learns how they face daily discrimination at the hands of local police and the hukou household registration system. "Highways, houses and hedges" or "trains, towers and trees"? Vishaan Chakrabarti's A Country of Cities Marc Norman • 9 July 2013 Vishaan Chakrabarti's new book A Country of Cities: a manifesto for an urban America, celebrates the Manhattanisation of US cities as an economically rational antidote to the damaging health and environmental effects of sprawl. Is Africa really urbanising rapidly? Not according to recent data Deborah Potts • 21 February 2012 It is common knowledge that sub-Saharan Africa is urbanising faster than anywhere else in the world ... but what if we're wrong?! Smart cities and the plight of cultural authenticity Kris Hartley • 24 March 2015 As Asian countries join together to build "smart" urban developments, Kris Hartley explains why planners should heed the lessons of colonial history when it comes to such projects. 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