Learning from 5 Pointz: what the graffiti mecca teaches us about the creation...
The famed warehouse site in Queens, New York, destroyed definitively last year, was about much more than just the place of graffiti in society. It highlighted precisely how we engage democratically in...
View ArticleColombo's growth pains: what is really meant by "rehabilitation"?
Five years from the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, Marco Picardi recalls his tour of the capital, where billboards for numerous redevelopment projects paper over an all-too-common logic of...
View ArticleCities are places where the powerless can shape history: the Right to the...
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...
View ArticleHumanitarian responses to discriminatory planning in Jerusalem
While working within Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem, Anne Hofhuis reports on the challenges the NGO sector faces as it tries to counter the destructive impacts of Israeli planning policies...
View ArticleThe road to eliminating homelessness by 2030
Tom Archer argues that eliminating homelessness by 2030, a key recommendation of the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, requires committed governments and an active civil society.
View ArticleNGOs in Manila unite the poor to fight for housing rights
Abidemi Coker discusses how NGOs in Manila are mobilizing poor urban residents to work together in community associations so they can access land and housing.
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