Potential and Current State of Urban Cycling Laws in Egypt
By Ahmed Tarek Alahwal & Omar Aboutaleb* 0.0 Introduction Cities around the world are embracing cycling as a clean and efficient mode of mobility as well as one that supports co-existence, democratized streets, and citizenship. In Egypt, cycling is much needed in the contested space of the overly dense, polluted and traffic-choked cities to compensate […]
Cities and Companies: A Critical View of the Sectoral Inclusion of South African Municipal Councils in KING IV
By Isolde deVilliers* Introduction This is a work in progress flowing from a paper presented at the Seventh Annual International and Comparative Urban Law Conference held virtually in July 2021. The central concern in this piece is how law and governance produce urban space and urban spatial relations that remain. Unequal distribution of power marks […]
Brazilian Cities and Facial Recognition: A Threat to Privacy
By Fernanda Catão de Carvalho & Igor Baden Powell* INTRODUCTION Cities are characterized by being spaces with different perspectives that allow for the circulation of people and goods, mediated by contractual, cultural and economic relations. For its functioning, resources are needed–water, energy, food, work, among others–and infrastructure–mobility, housing, health, education and security–referring to the need […]
Catalyzing Sustained Urban Development of Bengaluru through Social Entrepreneurship
By Nikhil Ravindra* 1. Introduction 1.1 General Overview This research aims to promote essential social entrepreneurship policies to catalyze and regulate sustained growth of Bengaluru (a mega-city with nearly 12.4 million population and capital for the state of Karnataka). The city was named as the world’s most dynamic city by the World Economic Forum in […]