Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • Privatizing Public Planning

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    This article was originally drafted by Noviscape for the newsletter “Trendnovation Southeast” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Urban and regional planning is generally perceived as the duty and responsibility of public organizations. In most, if not all, Southeast Asian countries, […]

  • Housing for the Poor

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    This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Recent years have witnessed a rise in the number of successful low-cost housing initiatives in five Asia Pacific countries: India, […]

  • Informal Mobility is Here to Stay

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    This article was originally drafted by Noviscape for Issue 14 of the newsletter “Trendnovation Southeast” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. As Southeast Asian cities continue growing and expanding to the suburbs, enough roads could never be built to meet the […]

  • Sustainably Connecting Off-Grid Consumers

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    This article was originally drafted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for Issue 13 of the newsletter “Asian Trends Monitoring Bulletin” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. There have been a number of large-scale rural electrification projects around […]