Safety for the urban poor: the complex taxonomy of security provision in cities
Jaideep Gupte – How the urban poor get access to security – for themselves, their families and communities and their assets – is however a neglected question. We know relatively little … Continue reading
Manila’s poor, bridging service gaps and strengthening mental resilience
This issue of the Asian Trends Monitoring (ATM) Bulletin looks into service delivery for the urban poor in Manila. We highlight the challenges of providing a network of functioning services … Continue reading
The Cities Issue
This special issue dedicated to the cities of the future has its eye squarely toward China, because the cities of the future are increasingly going to be speaking Mandarin — … Continue reading
How Targeting Has Left out the Poor
Michael P. Canares – The study concluded that the poor in the cities in the periphery are sidelined by two different trends. On one hand, their needs and concerns are … Continue reading
New tool to track city prosperity
Claire Provost – The new city prosperity index will attempt to track progress across five key issues: productivity, infrastructure, quality of life, equity, and environmental sustainability. This should help urban … Continue reading
Co-management and urban ecology
Marnie Graham and Henrik Ernstson – Co-management brings together resource users and fosters conflict-resolution and encourages stakeholder participation. That’s the rhetoric, at least. The reality is that co-management frequently involves long … Continue reading
Urban world: Cities and the rise of the consuming class
….600 cities making the largest contribution to a higher global GDP—the City 600—will generate nearly 65 percent of world economic growth by 2025. However, the most dramatic story within the … Continue reading
Temporary initiatives need a permanent place in urban creativity policies
While bland ‘creative city’ policies have become universally popular in the world’s city halls, new temporary and ‘pop-up’ urbanism initiatives are spreading even more quickly across the globe. Oli Mould argues that … Continue reading
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