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• Urbanization and Environment

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  Urbanization is basically an act. Human have made it happened since ancient times until where it reaches its peak at industrial revolution during the 19th century, when world economy started growing and expanding. There has been drastic change of humans activities going on in this process that up to date, human feel ...
  20 hours ago

• In Praise Of Middlemen

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 468
  Some weeks ago, I had mentioned my new-found friend, Bablu Das, the property dealer without property. He makes a living by dealing in titled properties in New Delhi’s Chittaranjan Park; while his own house is in Tughlaquabad, where they possess no titles. Hence my description of the man: “Property dealer ...
  4 days ago

• Land & Housing Manual

  
  Webbed Feet, Web Log — Authority: 402
  Cross-posted from Our Books web site : After about 5 years worth of illustration work, it’s out! —————— A Cambodian Guide to Defending Land and Housing Rights Simple resources for a growing topic of concern in Cambodia. (English and Khmer) We’re pleased to say the manual has hit the presses, ...
  6 days ago

• Urbanization of Tiruvannamalai Area

  
  Arunachala Grace — Authority: 113
  What seems to be currently occurring in the rural countryside near Tiruvannamalai, is a gradual replacement of the population. The farmers are selling up, mostly to developers and planners, and their farms are being levelled, surveyed and sold by the square foot as plots to accommodate the growing influx of people ...
  1 week ago

• On Climate Change Efforts, China Is Key

  
  Economix — Authority: 731
  The primary payoff from Americas environmental actions will come from the impact that they have on emissions in China and India, an economist writes.
  1 week ago

• Phnom Penh: a city of forced evictions and land grabs

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  Phnom Penh has been developing at breakneck speed. Infrastructure dots the capital. The result of this property boom is the sad and sorry reality that the city’s poor are being displaced at an alarming rate. ‘Activists are calling it the largest epidemic of evictions since the Khmer Rouge emptied all of Phnom Penh ...
  1 week ago

• Environmental Issues

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 158
  Anything that surrounds us and affects us directly or indirectly is the part of environment. It includes air, water, land, soil, flora, fauna & other organisms. Today, the declining environment is an alarming issue the world as a whole faces. This is a global phenomenon, nobody is untouched or unaffected by it’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Slums, A Collection of Images

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  From a human rights perspective, slums pose a variety of problems: the rights to housing and healthcare (art. 25 of the Universal Declaration ) are only the most obvious ones. We can all imagine how the rights to education, standard of living, privacy, property etc. are violated as well in slum conditions. More on ...
  2 weeks ago

• The End of the American Exurbs and the Death of Sprawl?

  
  TheCityFix.com — Authority: 502
  It’s a common refrain among Smart Growth advocates across the United States that goes something like this: “The fallout from the economic crisis is hitting far out suburban and exurban communities much harder than urban ...
  2 weeks ago

• Living in China: Plenty of GPS potties, to keep Shanghai’s World Expo site clean

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 130
  Not being able to find a clean toilet and seeing litter everywhere can spoil the world’s most popular tourist spots: Next year’s Shanghai World Expo will feature more than 200 of the world’s most innovative pavilions filled with the most advanced technology and inspiring exhibits about modern urban life. But ...
  2 weeks ago

• On A Top Professor... And Second-Class Citizens

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 468
  Thanks to Hayek Order providing the link , we have the Swaminathan Aiyar-Jean Dreze debate on the NREGA (rural workfare scheme) – the Flagship of the Chacha State – as the first topic on our agenda this misty morning. Although Aiyar concludes against this corrupt idea, nowhere does he use the term “economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alternative Nation

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 468
  Today, let us discuss the great “conflict of visions” between The Chacha State and those who believe in Liberty. The Chacha State’s vision, a Gandhian one, is of an India comprising hundreds of thousands of “self-sufficient village republics.” Our vision is that of hundreds of free-trading cities, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Urban Jungle

  
  GreenBucks — Authority: 116
  If only I have the power to travel back in time, I would do so. I would like to see how these familiar places where we usually go looked like decades ago sans the metal buildings and artificial natural environment. The other day, hubby and I talked about how the place where we live looked like when they first ...
  3 weeks ago

• Urbanization is inevitable process: Varma

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  The Times of India reports According to Varma, “Urbanization is an inevitable process, according to recent research 90 per cent of urban growth is taking place in the developing world. But the present urban planning is not in consolidation of the rapid urban growth taking place.” Keshav Varma is now heading ...
  3 weeks ago

• Towards a More Sustainable Jakarta

  
  TheCityFix.com — Authority: 502
  Jakarta is the world’s sixth most populous metropolitan area. At 18.9 million people, the Indonesian capital’s total population falls just short of metropolitan Mumbai and New York and its built environment covers some 5,100 square ...
  3 weeks ago

• Can We Design Better Communities?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 126
  (DRAFT 2. A Work-In-Progress) The Problem: Our Communities are Failing Ive been thinking about community lately. There is a great need for a new and better model for communities in the world today....
  3 weeks ago

• Can We Design Better Communities?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 126
  (DRAFT 2. A Work-In-Progress) The Problem: Our Communities are Failing Ive been thinking about community lately. There is a great need for a new and better model for communities in the world today....
  3 weeks ago

• Urbanization and Its Benefits to Mankind

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  As the human population rapidly increases, new ways are constantly being researched on how to support humanity. Scientists and social workers are now looking to urbanization to handle the population explosion, and to save Earth’s remaining ecosystems. Creating urban shelter for the entire world is a bold plan, but ...
  3 weeks ago

• Debate Over Abstinence-Only Programs ‘Latest Chapter’ In Battle Over U.S. Sex Education, Newsweek Reports

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  The U.S.’ “recent experience with abstinence-only sex education is merely the latest chapter in our long, sometimes ridiculous … history of efforts to control humankind’s most basic drive,” Johannah Cornblatt writes in a Newsweek article examining the history of sex education. Organized sex education first ...
  4 weeks ago

• Who Wants Development?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  A scavenger feeds on what was left from a fastfood delivery. Scavenging as a Way of Life The above scene has become increasingly much more common during the last five years in the once sleepy town of Puerto Princesa. Feeding themselves on the trash of other people, scavengers come alone, in pairs, even together as ...
  4 weeks ago

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