6-10 of 55 matching articles 5 20 100 All Are cities really killing culture in China? Bart Orr • 4 February 2014 The argument that China's urbanisation is destroying its traditional culture belies a misplaced nostalgia through which Westerners perceive non-Western cultures. An urban exemplar in the Middle East: Doha, Qatar Zoe Green • 1 May 2012 Doha is part of Qatar's push to become an urban exemplar for the region, diversifying away from an oil-based economy by investing in education, enterprise, sport, transport and the quality of the public realm. Where do city leaders go to learn from each other? Tim Campbell/Citiscope • 1 June 2010 Tim Campbell explains why city leaders are increasingly travelling abroad in search of new solutions: with little time or resources to reinvent the wheel, city leaders need to see solutions in action quickly. Fast facts on the Dharavi redevelopment Lindsay Clinton / Beyond Profit • 2 July 2010 Work is underway on redeveloping Dharavi, despite division even amongst government supervisors of the plan, with one committee member dead against a project driven by "profit, not rehabilitation". The knowledge gap dividing the two halves of the World Urban Forum in Medellín Laura Cesafsky • 22 April 2014 Reviewing UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum held in Medellín last week, Laura Cesafsky hears two camps talking past each other on the lack of scientific knowledge underpinning the New Urban Agenda. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
