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  • Working Papers

    Inclusive Urban Planning for the Working Poor: Planning Education Trends and Potential Shift

    Current urban planning education, supported by prevailing legislation, negatively impacts on the livelihoods and shelter options of the urban...

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  • Journal Articles

    Changing Structure of Governance in Non-Metropolitan Cities: A Study in Andhra Pradesh

    Globalisation has brought forward new modes of governance and technological options to urban local bodies in India in the last two decades....

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  • Journal Articles

    Dislocating modernity: Identity, space and representations of street trade in Durban, South Africa

    South Africa’s cities have experienced dramatic changes over the past decade. Cities are now home to a multiracial population, and have been...

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  • Research Reports

    Hawkers and the Urban Informal Sector: A Study of Street Vending in Seven Cities

    The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the problems of street vendors in urban areas. The study discusses the profession...

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  • Policy Briefs

    India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

    India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...

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  • Journal Articles

    Planning as Practice? Governing Conjunctures and Informal Urbanisation in Solapur Town

    Solapur is a town in Maharashtra with a vibrant industrial legacy, yet fraught with spatial and socio-economic divisions in the contemporary...

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  • Journal Articles

    Countdown 2015: an assessment of basic provision to migrant families in the urban slums of Ludhiana, North India

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Policies, Regulations and Organizational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya

    IDS Discussion Paper Number 299

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  • Technical Briefs

    Major International Events and the Working Poor: Selected Lessons for Social Actors Stemming from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa

    This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing...

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  • Journal Articles

    Intentions, Design and Outcomes: Reflections on IHSDP in Maharashtra

    This paper examines the implementation of the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme in the smaller cities of Maharashtra. It...

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