...Pralay Kanungo India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party is pursuing a campaign to revise history and remove historic Islamic monuments from cities like Varanasi, known for its multicultural fabric. The city is multifaceted, multireligious, and multicultural, with a population that is 63 percent...

...Anonymous A massive urban renewal project in Jeddah, the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia, has entailed the demolition of many historic quarters with substantial immigrant and working-class populations. Neighborhoods have been targeted with little warning or provision of compensation...

...Shauna Brail The pandemic has brought major disruptions to cities, particularly in patterns of work and transportation. Predictions of the death of downtowns may have been premature, but urban planners are rethinking the traditional central business district, transit systems, public spaces...

... leaders remain reluctant to embrace reforms to work and gender norms and in many other areas. Yet social changes are occurring at the grassroots level, as younger Japanese pursuing new opportunities are moving from cities to the countryside, others head overseas in pursuit of more diverse careers...

..., requiring a new approach to city planning and governance with a focus on justice. When Elizabeth moved to Ivory Park at the northeastern edge of Johannesburg twenty-four years ago, it was open land. She was a mother of three young children, and remembers building a basic shelter to protect them from...

...David Chandler “Data-driven governance assumes the need for constant adaptation to change.” Fourth in a series on ways of governing . © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Indonesia Rwanda governance technology development cities...

... India Brazil cities housing slums poverty land rights 15 Comparing China, India, and Brazil reveals that current housing policies in all three countries have produced new forms of exclusion for inhabitants of informal settlements. Slums, Favelas, and Urban Villages: Housing Policy...

... History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Joshua Lustig book review The New Pakistani Middle Class Ammara Maqsood Pakistan Lahore middle class Islam Muslim lifestyle secular business headscarf education urban cities Ammara Maqsood...

... . Stanford University Press , 2017 . © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Marwan Kraidy book review Asef Bayat Revolution without Revolutionaries Arab Spring neoliberalism Tunisia Egypt uprisings civil society urban cities...

...Kristen Looney; Meg Rithmire [T]he plan aims for massive urbanization through the extension of formal permanent residency to current and future migrants in small cities and towns rather than large urban centers. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University...

...Jeffrey W. Paller The prospects for sustainable urban development are embedded in larger political struggles. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Jeffrey Paller Africa Ghana Accra Lagos urbanization cities megacities slums...

...Sheila Jasanoff Scientific advances offer hope, but governments must cooperate to save the environment. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Sheila Jasanoff climate change technology environment cities geoengineering global...

... human resources cities 43 Humans since 1914 have undergone a global population explosion, a health explosion, a fertility revolution, and an urbanization revolution. . . . The Human Population Unbound NICHOLAS EBERSTADT Over the past hundred years, global demo-graphic changes have been more than...

... de Janeiro cities slums drug violence gangs pacification counterinsurgency Afghanistan 62 There are uncanny similarities between Rio de Janeiro s pacification strategy and ongoing counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Rio Tries Counterinsurgency robert muggah...