21-25 of 106 matching articles 5 20 100 All The City Effect: rapid urbanisation raises questions about how much urban government is enough Alia Dharssi • 17 February 2015 The idea of empowering city governments is a thrown around a lot these days in urbanite circles. But where should the line between local and higher levels of government begin and end? Alia Dharssi reports on the debate. Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging secondary cities Lily Song • 29 April 2014 Lily Song learns how Tacloban and other secondary cities can improve their ability to cope with emergency challenges which would be daunting even for the world's largest mega-cities. Releasing more land is the answer to the housing crisis in the UK Jeff Nottage • 6 May 2015 Jeff Nottage argues that the UK government needs to allow development within green belt land in order to solve the current housing crisis. A composting toilet that supports fruit trees may solve Addis Ababa's sanitation problems IRIN • 20 April 2010 After an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in August 2009, authorities in Addis Ababa have surveyed the city's sanitation and found that nearly one in four residents have no access to latrines. 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
