Linking Resilience and Sustainability in City Planning
Timon McPhearson – Cities around the world are making plans, developing agendas, and articulating goals for urban resilience, but is urban resilience really possible? Resilience to what, for what, and … Continue reading
The Emergence of an LGBT Movement in Vietnam
Vietnam’s laws, policies and decrees do not explicitly discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals but their rights are not legally protected and they are socially marginalised. The … Continue reading
Another underestimate of urban poverty
David Satterthwaite – Yet another global study has understated the scale and depth of urban poverty, by failing to appreciate the differences between rural and urban contexts. The Global Multidimensional … Continue reading
Why Don’t Remittances Appear to Affect Growth?
How does migration affect development? Maybe the most obvious way is the money that migrants send home to poor countries: remittances. But for years, development researchers have faced a puzzle. … Continue reading
Climate Change: Implications for Cities
The Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the most up-to-date, comprehensive and relevant analysis of our changing climate. Urban centres account for more than half … Continue reading
Will the World’s Emerging Megacities Turn the Corner? For Most of Them, Probably Not
People assume that the world’s emerging megacities will ultimately be successful, maybe even very successful. Places like São Paulo and Istanbul are held up as global cities in the making. Even … Continue reading
The rise of non-standard employment in selected ASEAN countries
The study maps out the different forms of non-standard forms of employment in ASEAN and call for a mix of strategies to address their rise, among others the following: • … Continue reading
Putting Politics Back Into Development
Creating systemic change is fundamentally a political process insofar as it involves power—who has power, how those in power act, and especially how those in power allocate resources. You can’t … Continue reading
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