Clik here to view.
Rio 2016: The exclusion games
With the Olympics Rios city limits are shifted: Instead of fostering the wealth of the population, the municipality opens the way for speculation in real estate.Dominated by private companies the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview with Shivani Chaudhry: "There is a global housing crisis"
India has the largest number of homeless and landless persons in the world, as well as the greatest number of urban and rural poor. But also in the global north, the world is witnessing increased...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Housing and the city: Local public action in Barcelona
Housing problems are particularly eminent in megacities of the global South. But they also exist n Northern industrialized countries. Spain is an extreme case. In the city of Barcelona, one can observe...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coproducing sustainable cities: Making sure “no-one is left behind”
Why communities want to co-produce with the state? The experience of communities in the global south is that it is important not to pass over responsibility to the state, because if citizen’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Habitat III: New Urban Agenda and the importance of civil society
Close on the heels of the UN adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 the HABITAT III conference offers the international community a timely opportunity to revisit and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How the Skopje 2014 project ate the urban commons
The Skopje2014 urban reconstruction project is the biggest infrastructure investment in the entire Macedonian history. This video delineates the costs and presents the corruptive machinations behind...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Habitat III: Co-producing Sustainable Cities?
The Conference "Co-producing Sustainable Cities?" addressed the conditions for sustainable urban development. This was the look specifically on the relationship between civil society and City...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Conflicting partnerships: Governance and urban challenges
Cities change and evolve constantly, and they do not act as a coherent entity. They are “co-produced.” To think of co-production as a concept should help us to think of a sustainable urban policy and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Massive deforestation to secure EU funds – Fidesz is not sparing the environment
An underreported aspect of Viktor Orbán’s rule is the harm Fidesz is doing to the environment. Due to urban development projects all over Budapest, thousands of healthy trees are in danger of being cut...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Africa poised for greatness – but governments must act fast
Continent has demographics, renewable energy sources and technology on its sideConventional wisdom tells us that the Chinese are buying up Africa faster than any other investors. It tells us that...
View Article
