41-45 of 79 matching articles 5 20 100 All The 'aughts': the decade that brought back infrastructure Alex Marshall/Citiwire • 11 April 2010 Writing from an American perspective, Alex Marshall argues that in a decade plagued by war and recession, one redeeming feature of the 'aughts' was that it got leaders around the world talking about infrastructure once again. "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. Strange plans to gentrify Hackney will exacerbate inequality yet may create needed jobs Frances Brill • 6 August 2013 Frances Brill wonders whether the plans to deliberately gentrify the areas most affected by London's riots will target investment to the creation of badly needed jobs. A network analysis approach to the Syrian dilemma Kerwin Datu • 27 August 2013 A chart doing the rounds of social media shows what a tangled mess the Middle East is. But if we tease it apart, we see a region neatly divided into two camps; it's just that one is divided amongst itself. Book review: Death of a Suburban Dream: race and schools in Compton, California by Emily E Straus Kerwin Datu • 21 October 2014 Emily E Straus takes on three critical issues which have shaped the Los Angeles suburb: the history of race and educational equity, the relationship between schools and place, and the intersection of schooling and municipal economies. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
