The world’s two new middles
Growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case: This paper discusses the emergence of two new middles since the Cold War, namely middle-income countries and people living above … Continue reading
Plastic and the city
The burden of single-use plastic bags on urban infrastructure has been a focus of the environmentalist movements and urbanist thought in the 21st century. Single-use plastic bags, however, are not … Continue reading
Measuring Women’s Empowerment: lessons to better understand domestic violence
This paper aims at shedding light on the relationship between women’s empowerment and domestic violence. For this, we explore different ways to measure women’s empowerment and domestic violence, and analyze … Continue reading
Responsible open data: an oxymoron? Discuss!
Originally posted on Wait… What?:
At our April 5th Salon in Washington, DC we had the opportunity to take a closer look at open data and privacy and discuss the…
The difference between observing and measuring the City
Originally posted on citiesaregoodforyou:
One way to divide up the sheep and goats of the Urbanist community is to divide them up between those who learnt the city by observation,…
Governing the ungovernable: spatial policy, markets and volume house-building in a growth region
The global rhetoric surrounding the role of private markets in the provision of new housing masks a more complex reality in which public policy and private developers are deeply enmeshed, … Continue reading
Urban world: The global consumers to watch
Until the turn of this century, population growth generated more than half of all global consumption. But between 2015 and 2030, three-quarters of global consumption growth will be driven by … Continue reading
Involuntary Resettlement
Report by the World Bank Inspection Panel. The report, which analyzed 22 years of complaints to the Inspection Panel by communities alleging they were harmed by bank projects, found that more … Continue reading
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