Urban planning

What happens when slum dwellers put themselves on the map

Women from near Rangoon, Myanmar are seated around a map with paper houses and trees talking and laughing.
1 May 2012
Media release
Poverty
Urban environments
The new issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization – published today – reveals how organisations of the ‘illegal’ urban poor have made themselves matter to city governments by mapping and documenting their informal settlements and the people and businesses in them.

Braking Beijing’s car addiction

20 January 2011
Blog entry
Urban environments

Driven by subsidies for small cars and an ever increasing middle class, the Chinese year of the tiger saw a ferocious increase in the car industry — a whopping 18.1 million vehicles (including 13.8 million cars) were sold in China in 2010, up by a third from the previous year. But will new efforts by Beijing combat both the booming economy and the grid-locked streets? And is this another example of China setting a new course for a greener future?

New issue of 'Environment and Urbanization' Vol 21, No 2. 'Secure land for housing and urban development' Oct 09

15 October 2009
Article
Poverty
Urban environments

In urban areas, the struggle by low-income groups to get housing and basic services is often a struggle to get land on which to build or to get tenure of land they already occupy.

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