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Image by David Amen, inspired by the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

Urban life

Cities have many faces

For this edition, we asked ourselves what makes a city liveable. Many of the problems faced by Nairobi – and the ways they are being tackled – are typical of big cities in the Global South. Let’s go and explore.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

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A resident of the Boeung Kak lakeside cries during a protest in Phnom Penh in 2011.

Urban development

Once there was a lake

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by Sun Narin
This informal settlement in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh was evicted in 2006.

Registration matters

Land titles help to prevent conflict

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by Sun Narin
In 2011, record flooding put large areas of Thailand under water.

Climate-change adaptation

Documentation by drones

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by Daniel Nordmann
by Till Below
Rural Tanzanian health centre: in developing countries, policymakers often find it easier to convince voters of investing government funds in social services than in long-term environmental protection.

Multilateral affairs

Global governance for SDGs

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by Belay Begashaw
Many questions concerning social standards remain unanswered at the young AIIB.

AIIB

Lacking standards

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by Lea Diehl
Chinese coast guard confronting Filipino fishermen near Scarborough Shoal, which is historically claimed by both countries.

Law of the sea

Pivoting Philippines

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by Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles
Coastal villages in the Mekong Delta are particularly hard hit by climate change.

Mangroves

Saving the Mekong Delta

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by Severin Peters
by Christian Henckes
Harvest worker on an Indonesian oil palm plantation.

Agriculture

Big palm oil is making the rules

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by Theresa Krinninger
Bangkok is one of the world’s most congested cities.

Bus Rapid Transit

Most affordable

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by Nicholas Hollmann
Myanmar’s dry season was unusually hot and long this year, leading to water shortages. People line up to fetch drinking water from a pond in Dala township south of Yangon in May.

Comment

Climate change deserves top-level attention

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by Katja Dombrowski