Quito

Subway Will Modernise – and Further Gentrify – Historic Centre of Quito

By Mario Osava
Success can kill, when it comes to cities. Spain’s Barcelona is facing problems due to the number of tourists that it attracts. And the historic centre of Ecuador’s capital city, Quito, a specially preserved architectural jewel, is losing its local residents as it gentrifies.

North and South Face Off Over “Right to the City”

By Emilio Godoy
The declaration that will be presented for approval at the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in October has again sparked conflict between the opposing positions taken by the industrial North and the developing South.
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OP-ED: Making Cities Safe for Women and Girls

By Michelle Bachelet
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: This is not happening in my backyard.


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