Last week the 200-odd local governments that constitute the Paris Métropole syndicate concluded their public consultation on restructuring the administration of the metropolitan area. Kerwin Datu reflects on the available options for reuniting la petite ville-musée with its extensive suburbs.
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.
Isabelle Guillon argues that Grand Paris is understood only when the suburban landscape beyond the Périphérique is absorbed into our concept of the city.
The world's biggest logistics company maintains its largest African hub in Lagos. Kerwin Datu take a tour and learn how logistics operators and local authorities are learning to make the industry more sustainable.
It's time to revisit London's bus maps, whose design is so poor they often don't even show any destinations!
We ought not as a rule to satanise the privatisation of urban infrastructure, argues transport researcher Carlosfelipe Pardo.
Why bother with all of this? Firstly, there are strong socioeconomic inequalities emerging in the metropolis that a fragmented governance structure has great difficulty perceiving and addressing adequately...
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The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world.
Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, and researchers.
