Commentary
The view from our hotel window was of outer urban apartment buildings, spaced evenly in the early morning smog. The days started as for many in the world with a commute, the bone jarring ride to forum site not a pleasant outlook. The distance between our comfortable accommodation and the forum venue where we went to work for women's rights was traversed with relative ease not so for many who live on the urban fringes with inadequate housing and no access to work or basic services.

Political decisions set of the forum far from the concentration of accommodation and restaurants available in the urban centre, insulating locals from the disruptive potential of 35,000 strident women. What political decisions lie behind the micro and macro patterns of housing in the developed in developing worlds?