31-35 of 55 matching articles 5 20 100 All Trialling the future of urban transit at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore Henrik Valeur • 2 April 2013 Henrik Valeur visits Bangalore to see how researchers at the IISc are integrating bicycle sharing and electric vehicles on campus, a potential prototype for transit systems across India's cities. 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. Neither seen nor heard: South Asia's millions of home-based workers Shalini Sinha • 4 December 2012 Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions yet remain invisible in urban planning. Shalini Sinha argues that housing and zoning must be reconceived with a focus on home as workplace. The migrant workers of Gurgaon struggling for visibility in the eyes of the government Tom Cowan • 13 November 2012 Despite contributing to key export sectors of India's economy, all levels of government seem to conspire to overlook the needs of Gurgaon's migrant workers. City of paper urbanism: how Mumbai can make plans it may actually implement Kristen Teutonico • 30 October 2012 As Mumbai progresses its newest 20-year Development Plan, Kristen Teutonico argues that many small interventions might do more for the city than a grand plan that may ultimately be ignored entirely. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11