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Jessica Burger

BBC - BBC One Programmes - Human Planet, Cities - Surviving the Urban Jungle - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/b00rrd7y

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  • Jessica Burger on 24 Feb 11
     
    Also now available as a DVD set from Amazon
Richard Allaway

BBC News - Audio slideshow: Chicago's doomed spire - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-us-canada-12778518

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  • Richard Allaway on 25 May 11
     
    Slide show with commentary about the high rise in Chicago and how this was the city to watch for the 20th Century and how cities might re-assess their need to build up as a traditional CBD.  Helps to establish the idea of a CBD based on building height with Bid Rent and Burgess.   [Submitted by Chris Stephenson]
Kathleen Noreisch

In pictures: World's poor overwhelmed by rubbish | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...waste-world-environment-day

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  • Kathleen Noreisch on 06 Jun 09
     
    World Environment Day was established by the UN in 1972 to give a human face to environmental issues. But as these images show, developing countries suffer the worst effects of waste and pollution. Here, a trash-covered creek in Manila, Philippines, where slums often adjoin rubbish dumps. The country's poorest sift through the garbage to find discarded objects they can sell on or re-use, or even scraps of food to eat
Matt Corke

Toward Zero Waste: Mumbai's Informal Recycling Economy | Sustainable Cities Collective - 1 views

sustainablecitiescollective.com/...ing-biogas-plants-mumbai-india

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  • Mumbai’s rapid growth, high density, and sheer size present significant challenges for its waste management system. The enormous quantity of waste generated in the city makes large-scale, technologically driven “solutions” tempting. However, the opposite approach—a highly decentralized, people-powered model of waste management—has proven successful
Matt Corke

Robert Neuwirth: The power of the informal economy | Video on TED.com - 2 views

www.ted.com/...r_of_the_informal_economy.html

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  • Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers, to study the remarkable "System D," the world's unlicensed economic network. Responsible for some 1.8 billion jobs, it's an economy of underappreciated power and scope.
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