Once every 20 years the UN focuses on cities, but the wrong people will be there
Urbanization guru David Satterthwaite raises the curtain on next month’s big Habitat III conference. Surprising though it may seem, I once got mistaken for the mayor of London. I was at a conference for mayors in Latin America and not realising the mistake, for half a day I had all the most prominent mayors…
Charter Cities – visionary, naive or bonkers?
Charter Cities are a proposal to build cities from scratch in the world’s poorest nations, outsourcing their design and government to rich countries. Visionary, naïve or plain bonkers? Probably a bit of all three. They are the brainchild of US economist Paul Romer, who explains his idea on this (20 minute) video. He’s serious –…