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Cities are places where the powerless can shape history: the Right to the City in the 21st Century
Alia Dharssi caught up with sociologist Saskia Sassen at the London School of Economic’s Urban Age Conference in New Delhi on November 15th. She talks about the governance challenges facing the world’s cities today and the ways in which average people can voice their concerns in the face of big money.
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What Indian cities can learn from Bogotá
Enrique Peñalosa, mayor of Bogotá from 1998 to 2001, is credited with bringing major changes to the Colombian capital, including the library system, parks, the bus rapid transit (BRT) system and improving hundreds of poor schools. He talks to Alia Dharssi at the LSE Urban Age conference in Delhi about how he got things done, rethinking urban planning and pedestrian-friendly cities.
Spatial planning one of few clear solutions for climate change
A well-planned response to the unprecedented expansion of cities may hold the key to responding to climate change and other challenges of the 21st century.
Unlocking the prosperity of the UK's core cities
A range of UK government initiatives seek to rebalance the country's urban-based economic growth on major cities other than London. Zoe Green assesses the field.
Death of a Suburban Dream, Compton CA
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.
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Colombo's growth pains
Five years out from the civil war, Marco Picardi recalls his tour of the capital, where billboards paper over an all-too-common logic of modernisation, eviction, and lack of compensation.
The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 3
The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 2
Changing the way urban planning is taught in African universities
Governance
Africa's Urban Revolution, part 1: second-generation policies
How policies surrounding issues such as decentralisation, food security and armed conflict must now adapt to the maturing of Africa's urbanisation experience.
Opposition to a Delhi mega mall shows that voice matters but that class matters equally
The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 1
Trashing democracy in Bogotá: the real issue behind the mayoral crisis
economY
Africa's Urban Revolution, part 2: de-urbanisation is futile
Sean Fox's provocative new theory that urbanisation is driven by demographic transition, not by economic growth, and that even rural development initiatives will directly cause increased urban populations.
The middle of nowhere: smarter than it used to be
How to finance energy efficiency through retrofitting cities
Opening Asian cities up to foreign knowledge workers
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What 5 points teaches us about the creation of public space
The famed warehouse site in Queens, destroyed definitively last year, highlighted precisely how we engage democratically in the creation of public space, especially those that suggest alternative ways of forming a "public".
Are cities really killing culture in China?
Building resilience to natural disasters in Thailand
Opportunity Village: for and by the homeless
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Boston and the healing of an urban wound
Unlike a wound to the body, the marks left behind a wound to a city may be of the city's own designs, in the form of a memorial. A memorial which Sam Valentine argues is now needed to restore dignity to the act of remembrance.
Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging cities
Flaneuring on the marble: what are these new public spaces of Delhi?
The haze that hides the eternal blue sky
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In favour of direct aid for cities
Despite growing numbers of international development organisations focused at the municipal level, donors are still reluctant to provide ODA directly to local governments.
Maintaining a critical perspective on cities
The road to Habitat III: a wake-up call to the New Urban Agenda
The knowledge gap dividing the two halves of the World Urban Forum
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