Philipp Rode

@PhilippRode

Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of LSE Cities at the London School of Economics

London
Joined October 2009

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  1. 360.000 seats in urban transport were banned in Karachi by legislating against three-wheel taxis.

  2. A success of resistance: 16 km of Karachi beach shore was NOT privatised and developed for commercial real estate.

  3. New planning settlements in Karachi continue to decline in density while informality produces hyper density.

  4. Informal densification has led to enormous social costs in Karachi. Arif Hasan

  5. Informal developers have captured Karachi's housing market and are leading a major phase of densification. Arif Hasan

  6. Massive challenge of peripheralisation: the new informal areas are not inhabitable as they are too far from everything else

  7. New informal settlements in Karachi are different: renting in the city is now cheaper than living at the periphery. Arif Hasan

  8. Arif Hasan: the housing demand and supply gap in Karachi will continue to generate informal housing.

  9. Arif Hasan: Cities need to address the governance conflict linked to migration. How can agency be shared across difference?

  10. Arif Hasan: 62% of income tax in Pakistan comes from Karachi (with just 9% of the country's population)

  11. Arif Hasan: if Pakistan would use India's accounts of urbanisation it would be 50% urban (official figure is 40%)

  12. Thinking harder: how we could do referendums differently

  13. Going driverless: can self-driving cars gain public trust or will they be derailed?

  14. Prefabs called into service for UK housing shortage via

  15. Trump got fewer votes than Romney or McCain. He won because many Democrats couldn't be bothered turn out for H Clinton.

  16. Kind of remarkable how this pre-election piece explains yesterday better than anything written today.

  17. Cars don’t just choke our children – they tear a hole in our communities | George Monbiot

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