Towards green cities in developing countries: Egyptian new cities as a case study

Towards a new political project for cities

Between Green and Grey: Towards a New Green Volume Indicator for Cities

Trees in urban settings have vast and documented benefits for city dwellers. We propose that to represent city green the green volume should be taken into account, instead of surface or number of trees. In addition, green volume should be seen in relation to the built “grey” volume to account for dilution or misrepresentation effects. This paper is a first contribution to develop tree-to-buildi...

Solid waste management challenges for cities in developing countries.

Solid waste management is a challenge for the cities' authorities in developing countries mainly due to the increasing generation of waste, the burden posed on the municipal budget as a result of the high costs associated to its management, the lack of understanding over a diversity of factors that affect the different stages of waste management and linkages necessary to enable the entire handl...

Spatial Disparities in Developing Countries: Cities, Regions and International Trade

Spatial inequality in developing countries is due to the natural advantages of some regions relative to others and to the presence of agglomeration forces, leading to clustering of activity. This paper reviews and develops some simple models that capture these first and second nature economic geographies. The presence of increasing returns to scale in cities leads to urban structures that are n...

Global childhood unintentional injury surveillance in four cities in developing countries: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and nature of childhood injuries and to explore the risk factors for such injuries in low-income countries by using emergency department (ED) surveillance data. METHODS This pilot study represents the initial phase of a multi-country global childhood unintentional injury surveillance (GCUIS) project and was based on a sequential sample of children < 11 yea...