Feature Trouble in the promised land About 60,000 African migrants live in Israel, often in exploitative circumstances. Increasingly, they are under under threat of violence from militants. Joseph Dana visited South Tel Aviv, to find out more
Intelligence The great American home robbery The practice of targeting of racial minorities for predatory home loans forms part of a long and under-reported history of discrimination in the USA Laura Gottesdiener
Intelligence Brazilians rediscover politics Until June 2013, time seemed to be frozen in Brazil and the future, a mere copy of the unequal present. Transport price hikes changed that Luiz Eduardo Soares
Intelligence Shuffle & Repeat Cairo protestors are hearing familiar grievances in old protest songs. Things endlessly repeat themselves, just differently Neo Muyanga
Intelligence Lessons for America What can Hartford , once America’s most prosperous city, learn from scholarship on cities in the global south? Garth Myers
Intelligence Learning to be fearless Urban studies involves the continuous search for the intersecting points between diagnosis, analysis, critique and proposition Edgar Pieterse
Feature An Island of Exception A thriving commercial centre in south Delhi, Hauz Khas Village is notorious for its unscrupulous landlords who have transformed this neighbourhood, officially dismissed as a rural enclave, into a destination for pleasure-seekers Samanth Subramanian
Conversations Canny & Co. Founded by Cameroonian entrepreneur Bonaventure Ndikung, SAVVY Contemporary is a Berlin exhibition space devoted to art, networking and eating Sean O’Toole
Feature On the threshold In 2007 architect, designer and artist Danilo Capasso started photographing the Italian port city of Naples, in particular its eastern edge. The district, home to licit and illegal economies, is marked by an unplanned sense of place Iain Chambers | Danilo Carpese
Conversations Lessons from somewhere Renowned academic Ananya Roy’s talks to Gautam Bhan about fashioning an urban theory that is cognisant of the role of place Ananya Roy & Gautam Bhan
Conversations Credibility is everything Togolese-Canadian novelist Edem Awumey talks about the many literatures that inform his exile-influenced writings Sean O'Toole
Feature The Baritone Franco, the godfather of Congolese Rumba, wrote the soundtrack to Africa’s early post-independence years. He skilfully negotiated change and tyranny in Zaire with guitar and song Fred de Vries
Feature Soweto: After Informality Once a byword for deprivation, Soweto is changing, finds. Rapidly. Roads have been tarred, electricity introduced, water pipes laid, public transport upgraded. Writer Joonji Mdyogolo meets the decision-makers who are shaping contemporary Soweto Joonji Mdyogolo
Feature Cliches in the city On films that confirm and challenge stereotypes about African cities Tau Tavengwa
Feature Little Lagos in China Yepoka Yeebo on the West African traders who have settled in Guangzhou since the late 1990s. She discovers that for those who stayed, daily life is not just about money. Food and religion matter too Yepoka Yeebo
Conversations People of the sky In 2004 Guy Tillim moved into an apartment in central Johannesburg. Over the next five months he set about recording life in the city’s cramped high-rise apartments Sean O'Toole