by Global Development Institute | Nov 6, 2025 | Events, Policy
By Isis Barei-Guyot, Tom Gillespie and Smith Ouma On 4 November 2025 Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of New York City. The 34-year-old Democratic Socialist campaigned on the issue of urban affordability and took on the city’s political and real estate establishment...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 6, 2018 | Comment
Dr Constance Smith, Hallsworth Fellow in Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester ‘Those building materials are bad! See that steel, it is very small. The bricks are also weak, they could not build a tall building like this’. Standing amid the rubble of a...
