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Opinion 7 years ago
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To build world's best-ever capital, copy Canberra
Neither Sydney nor Melbourne would consent to the other becoming the capital. For a while after 1901, the two cities agreed to rotate the responsibilities and take turns seating the elected parliamentarians to govern the country, until a new capital could be built somewhere in between.
Opinion 7 years ago
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Trading mobility to cut pollution: Is it urgent now?
In the end, while efforts have been made, and options will continue to be considered in order to manage Jakarta’s pollution in the short run, it remains necessary to constantly question and discuss the state of urban mobility in Jakarta.
Opinion 7 years ago
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Challenges of Jakarta's replacement
As a whole, the city’s master plan is likely planned and designed by those who never learned much about the misery and the socially alienated populations of modern cities because of the automobile-oriented design and poorly diverse public realms.
Opinion 7 years ago
What sort of 'development' has no place for a billion slum dwellers?
UN-Habitat, the body with global responsibility for issues of urban growth, advocates city-wide slum upgrading and integration with metropolitan plans. Such programs are explicitly “participatory” and inclusive.
News 7 years ago
Vibrant neighborhood or tourist magnet? Puerto Rico shows hidden cost of urban renewal
Residents say that quality of life is under threat from increasing tourism and rising rents that are pushing out young people and poorer families, as the US island territory struggles to recover from a hurricane two years ago that killed some 3,000 people.
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