Cape Flats, Cape Town: Coping and Responses to Infrastructure Gaps
By Sustainable Development Solutions CenterBy Oisin O’Brien The Cape Flats is a region of metropolitan Cape Town located to the south and east of the city center. A conglomerate
By Oisin O’Brien The Cape Flats is a region of metropolitan Cape Town located to the south and east of the city center. A conglomerate
By Lauren Himiak Living in a City of the Dead After 1973, government policy in Egypt shifted from a socialist, public-sector economy to an open-door,
By Amy Hunter The densely populated and violent Cité Soleil is located on the northern perimeter of Haiti’s capital. It is bordered by the vestiges
By Alison Dalton Smith Unmapped and Unknown: Neza-Chalco-Itza, Mexico City Mexico City’s Neza-Chalco-Itza slum has four million people (Jacobson, 2007). Land area of the slum
By Pablo Arboleda Diagnostic Agege is one of 16 Local Government Areas of Metropolitan Lagos. It is located in 11 square kilometers area in northern
By Kannika Phadoungxath Cono Sur slum is located in southern Lima, Peru and is one of six regions in the Lima Metropolitan Area, with a
By Lina Federiko Gap Masina slum is located in southeast region of Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa lies on the left
By Syed Mohsin Islamshahr is a city south of Tehran. It is one of the largest immigrant cities. It has a population of 357,171 and
By Lauren O’Reilly The district of Aguablanca is located on 3,000 hectares in the southeastern floodplain (Ridgley, 1989) of Columbia’s third largest city, Santiago de
In December of 2011, emerging sustainable development leaders gathered in Professor Shagun Mehrotra’s Climate Change and Cities course to discuss climate risks and responses in eight global cities: Dakar, Delhi, London, Melbourne, São Paulo, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Toronto. Urban climate resilience was analyzed in the water,
