Vancouver The World Urban Forum is a biennial affair put together by UN-Habitat to look the issue raised by cities and the continued concentration of the world’s population in urban areas and the massive issues that follow. They talk about these problems at least, and we will have to see if they do anything about …
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Gloria Goodbye
Washington I met Gloria Wilson in the usual way almost 36 years ago. I knocked on her door. I was going down a street of small bungalow houses in Little Rock’s South End neighborhood. Standing and looking to the east one could see and hear the expressway and the access road 100 feet away. Looking …
Gathering the Anti-FDI Coalition in Mumbai
Mumbai The meeting was slowly pulling together at the Indian Chamber of Commerce building near Churchgate. Mohan Gurani and C.T. Shanghvi from the FAM were running the meeting and giving the background on the fight they had been waging in somewhat lonely and unrewarding fashion since 1999 against proposals to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) …