For most of us, the phrase “urban planner” conjures up images of zoning maps and concrete budgets. Ana Claudia Urbina prefers a different canvas: the streets of Tegucigalpa, where

Before the mines, this was heathland: a poor, sparsely populated corner of the Campine, farms and open moor, nothing that suggested a boom. The first shafts were sunk in the early

If you mention Brakpan to someone from Johannesburg, you’ll often get a knowing nod—a shorthand for a particular kind of South African story. For decades, the town’s name was synon