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Make Way for High Rises: Who Benefits from Slum Demolitions in Mumbai?

Throughout Mumbai, one can see members of a vast, seldom-remunerated labor pool that does not share in globalization’s promises of plenty and exists on the legal margins. Sixty-two percent of...

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Destroying the City to Save It: New York in the Shadow of Le Corbusier

We often consider Le Corbusier’s top-down redevelopment ethos a dead letter from the urban renewal era, a victim of its own mistakes. But neoliberal governance, as in Bloomberg’s New York, has seen the...

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Beyond the “World of 70″: Inequality and the 2030 Development Goals

These are heady days at the UN. The International Panel on Climate Change is initiating a new series of reports promising to make global warming harder to ignore, while national delegations in New York...

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