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  • Worker Story

    Deus é meu Despertador

    Série Vida dos Trabalhadores. Dona Maria Brás foi uma força incansável na luta das cooperativas de catadores brasileiros contra a perseguição...

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  • Technical Briefs

    How to Plan a Street Trader Census

    Street traders represent one of the largest and most visible segments of the informal economy, yet the actual number of street traders working...

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  • Policy Briefs

    The Regularization of Street Vending in Bhubaneshwar, India: A Policy Model

    After years of conflict between street traders and local authorities, the city of Bhubaneshwar, India developed a public, private and community...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Spatial Reproduction of Urban PovertyEconomic & Political Weekly

    This article highlights, from the vantage point of workers in the resettlement colony, how the restructuring processes of large formal sector...

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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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  • Books & Book Chapters

    ‘Life Has Educated Me’: Building Interpersonal Networks through the Jadibanagar Slum Upgrading Project

    This study is a jointly produced outcome from the reflection and sharing of group participants in the Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP)....

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  • Journal Articles

    Urban livelihoods: reviewing the evidence in support of the New Urban Agenda

    SUMMARY: The New Urban Agenda (NUA) recognizes the role played by the urban informal economy and makes bold commitments to inclusive urban...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The Roadmap to Sustainable and Inclusive Solid Waste Systems A Tale of two Cities

    The chapter is on pages 41-47.

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  • Journal Articles

    The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African city

    Abstract:

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  • Working Papers

    Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban Environment

    The New Urban Agenda envisages cities and human settlements that fulfil their social function. But what is a city’s “social function”? And...

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