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India's Boom Pushed Cities to Their Limits. Here's How Pune Coped.

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Waste collection door-to-door by the members of the SWaCH cooperative in Pune, India. Photo Credit: Brodie Talbot
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Informal Workers Make Cities Work For All: 3 Stories from Thailand, India and Colombia

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Choral Mauladia, a street vendor and trade unionist in Ahmedabad. Photo: Getty Images Reportage.
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Rational Choices for Sustainable Urban Mobility - Luiz Senna

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The Crisis in Affordable Housing Is a Problem for Cities Everywhere

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Affordable housing for all.
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Powering Cities in the Global South: How Energy Access for All Benefits the Economy and the Environment

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Confronting the Urban Housing Gap

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Informal housing in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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March for Science? Sure, but then Walk the Talk

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We’re Lousy at Describing Sustainable Food, but it Doesn’t Have to Be That Way

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In a Broken Food System, Consumers Have More Power Than They Realize

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Farmers’ market in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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PODCAST: Planning the City of the Future

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