Urbanisation, rural–urban migration and urban poverty
Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, but also growing concern. Migrants are often blamed for increasing urban poverty, but not all migrants are poor. In many cities, however, migrants … Continue reading
How Data Privatization Will Change Planning Practice
For urban planners, the promise of data offers unprecedented access to information, citizen engagement, and solutions to some of the most significant challenges facing urban areas, such as traffic, infrastructure, … Continue reading
Human rights and the New Urban Agenda
…we are leaving aside some potent and critical tools. The use of human rights instruments has not been prominent, either as guiding principles for sustainable urban development, as tools for … Continue reading
A City is a Machine for Creating Networks
In this era of reurbanization, with large scale developments in cities setting the path for the next half century, cities must be designed to create the maximum benefit. Currently many … Continue reading
The key to humanity’s future? Asian cities
To address the seemingly insurmountable urban challenges we face, urban leaders and decision makers must, first and foremost, cultivate an ecosystem that nurtures innovation. Often it is the pioneers, inventors … Continue reading
The Capability Approach in Development Planning and Urban Design
The collection of work by Masters students and staff hopes to question, complement or propose new ways of thinking about capabilities and explores how the capability approach can be applied … Continue reading
What is Urban Decay? (And Why the Answer Matters)
Cities have begun requiring developers of large-format retail stores (aka: “big box stores”) to prepare what is called an “urban decay study.” The study is meant to identify possible environmental … Continue reading
Waste not, want not
The working lives of India’s urban waste pickers show the hidden connections between everything that matters in the city. Managing India’s urban waste will always be about more than just … Continue reading
Building New Cities
Across the planet, hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in new cities, in countries including China, India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, the Philippines, Palestine, Morocco, Afghanistan, Germany and … Continue reading
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