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How to Empower the World’s Poor

  Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

The key to solving global poverty is possessing secure land and property tenure, according to this opinion piece. Having such security enables poor communities, even those here at home, to make demands from their governments.

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From a Zombie Economy to a New Economy

  Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

The stream of Washington bailouts is a doomed attempt to revive a ‘zombie economy’, argues James Howard Kunstler. He believes we need to start organizing new, local economies built around growing food, making things and transporting them by rail.

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Expatriates Find Competition in Mumbai

  Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

Floods of British expatriates moving to Mumbai are finding the city practically as competitive and sometimes even more expensive than home.

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Xmas Gift for the Transit Nut

  Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

Lionel is offering its first ever model subway set, recreating the New York subway system complete with station announcements and subway sounds.

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Beauty Queen’s Day-Job is Town Planner

  Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

A town planner from Brisbane, Australia, has been crowned the beauty-queen face of an annual open-air motor racing event.

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