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Climate Week Speakers Say Cities Must Respond to Poverty

Climate Week Speakers Say Cities Must Respond to Poverty

Cities are grappling with how to address the growing impacts of climate change. Two panels at Climate Week NYC took a broad view of what those impacts are and urged cities to abandon their siloed mindset about

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75 pivotal public policies: Minha Casa, Minha Vida

75 pivotal public policies: Minha Casa, Minha Vida

The ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’ (‘My house, My life’) social housing policy launched in Brazil in 2009 was hugely ambitious, aiming to provide social housing for an estimated 7m people then living in sub-optimal conditions,

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Cities Are For Humans, Even After Covid. Interview With Urban Visionary Jan Gehl

Cities Are For Humans, Even After Covid. Interview With Urban Visionary Jan Gehl

While others have called for a more humane approach to cities over the years, arguably no one has had as much influence on shaping urban spaces and shifting the way we think about urban design

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From A Cell To A Home: Housing Released Prisoners In The Pandemic

From A Cell To A Home: Housing Released Prisoners In The Pandemic

Crowded jails have emerged as a hotbed of COVID-19 with up to 40% of inmates in Los Angeles County infected by late May. To try to stop the spread, officials sharply reduced jail populations, releasing roughly 5,000

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Making Density Less Deadly. COVID Can Catalyze Healthier Housing Policies

Making Density Less Deadly. COVID Can Catalyze Healthier Housing Policies

“There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now,” tweeted Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, on March 22nd. In the three weeks since New

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Heroes Of The Slums: India’s Grassroots Pandemic Beaters

Heroes Of The Slums: India’s Grassroots Pandemic Beaters

With more than 2 million confirmed cases, India now has the third-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world. A hasty lockdown, followed by a disorderly reopening, failed to slow the pandemic but has thrown

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Turning Shops Into Homes. John Lewis Sells A Big Idea

Turning Shops Into Homes. John Lewis Sells A Big Idea

Britain’s squeezed property market and the John Lewis Partnership’s motto of never being “knowingly undersold” are not comfortable bedfellows. Democratized controversially by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s sale of publicly-owned council homes to their residents in the 1980s, housing

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