All posts in Urban Planning and Design
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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
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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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