Protect urban poor from greedy capitalists

On December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a second hand wares seller in Sidi Bou Said, a town in Northern Tunisia, set himself ablaze because municipal officials had endlessly harassed and prevented him from selling wares on the streets.

A few months later, this desperate act triggered off mass demonstrations, revolts, and revolutions that came to be known as the Arab Spring. The rare incident captured the inevitable consequence of the global urban tragedy where exclusion of the poor and other marginalised groups has become official policy and practice.