By Boram Lee During the 20th century, many planners attempted to modify city policies as well as community development with new ideas and techniques. Numerous factors, including the rapid population and urban growth, have shaped contemporary planning to accommodate people … Continue reading →

By Minh Le Do Part I: The misty history of the Maldives Modernity is a very complicated term used to determine the difference between the past, present, and future. Generally, it entails the meeting of processes of political, scientific, technological, economic … Continue reading →

By Patrick Braga Morocco has long been described as a laboratory for modernist urban planning. Under French colonialism, Moroccan cities became experiments for ideas and visions of how cities in France could come to evolve within a perspective of modernist … Continue reading →

By Ivy Wong Urban slums, especially those in developing nations, haven always been a problem that planners have struggled to address and remediate. The slums of Nairobi are no different. Nairobi is a relatively new city, only established around a … Continue reading →

By Allen T. Navasero The term ‘slum’ generally refers to a once attractive neighborhood that has deteriorated’ (Kramer). Although different localities often have their own words to define slums, Kramer’s definition of a ‘slum’ is accurate for those in Metro Manila. … Continue reading →

By Da Eun Lee Home to one of the largest slums in Asia, Karachi has had several issues with housing, stemming from the rapid population growth that characterizes the city. The city had around 0.5 million residents in 1947, before … Continue reading →