1-5 of 58 matching articles 5 20 100 All Next stop Villa 31: the politics of placing a subway station in a Buenos Aires slum Drew Reed • 30 April 2013 A new subway line through an old informal neighbourhood in Buenos Aires is shaping up to be a political battle between social idealism and engineering pragmatism as Drew Reed discovers. Transformative urbanism: Cairo's women-only metro carriages Mae Wiskin • 18 August 2015 Seven years after the introduction of Women-Only Metro carriages in Cairo, former resident Mae Wiskin explores what this intervention means for the city, public space and gender politics within Cairo and Egypt as a whole. Urban housing policy can win the British general election Frances Brill • 24 April 2015 Frances Brill explains how innovative policy that targets 18- to 24-year-olds' struggles with finding affordable housing could be the key to igniting fervour for electoral politics among this group. Politics needs to be part of the global urban agenda Kerwin Datu • 14 April 2011 Authorities meet in Nairobi this week to set the agenda for UN-HABITAT, but domestic politics makes a lot of that agenda impossible. How can we put domestic politics back on the table? How Detroit's emergency financial manager is needed to control infrastructure costs across the US Isidoros Kyrlangitses • 19 March 2013 Neither the right nor the left like the appointment of an emergency manager for Detroit, but he will be critical in calming the municipal bond market and preventing infrastructure costs from inflating. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12