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New Urban Update: Global Urban Poverty Research Agenda: The African Case
Jan 23, 2007By Professor Akin L. Mabogunje
CUSP's latest Urban Update: Urbanization and Poverty Reduction
Aug 01, 2006Jorge Wilheim, former Planning Secretary for the City of Sao Paulo, Brazil, describes the importance of establishing links between short and long term projects aimed at poverty reduction.
Law and Land Policy in an Urbanizing World
Jul 24, 2006The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in co-operation with the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, the Erasmus University, and the Global Land Tool Network of UN-HABITAT proudly present a 10 day international executive learning course on the legal dimensions of the urbanization process. For more information, please view the following PDF flyer.
CUSP's latest Urban Brief: Urban Studies in Cairo, Egypt
May 12, 2006Urban studies is the Middle East and North Africa are a recent phenomenon, dating only to the mid-1970's. Although the region received uneven attention in the past, its rapid urbanization has attracted increasing interest. Author Dominique Harre-Rogers explains that in Egypt, a rich range of studies provides new insight into the making of Cairo as one of the world's mega-cities over the last thirty years. This brief draws on selected recent research in the areas of urban and Middle East studies.
New Urban Update: Ethnicity and Power in Contested Cities: the Historical Experience
Mar 01, 2006To view our latest Urban Upadte, please select the Publications tab on the column to the right hand side of this screen, then select "Urban Briefs".
Urbanization and Health
Jan 04, 2006The fast pace of urban development has had dire health consequences for the urban poor. The Comparative Urban Studies Project's Allison Garland discusses some of the threats as well as a new joint initiative with USAID that will study and propose strategies to alleviate poverty.
Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv
Nov 03, 2005This volume, published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press, examines three cities, now receiving large numbers of new immigrants, that have long histories of division into just two communities of language and race: Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv. It approaches this topic in terms of how the new immigrants live, work, and go to school and describes how the politics in each of these cities has changed, or failed to change, in the face of the new demographics.
Health Crisis: HIV/AIDS in Developing World Cities
Feb 23, 2004Developing country urban areas pose both challenges and unique opportunities in the fight against HIV/AIDS. This seminar will address these challenges as well as community initiatives and rights based responses to HIV/AIDS in resource poor countries. The event will be webcast from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. (ET) from this site.
