Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Approaches to Basic Service Delivery for the Working Poor: Assessing the Impact of Mahila Housing Trust’s Parivartan Slum Upgrading Programme in Ahmedabad, India

Increased urbanization in India has meant more poor people live in hazardous conditions, lacking access to even basic facilities and services....

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...

Trajectories and Memories – Waste and Citizenship Forums: Unique Experiments of Social Justice and Participatory Governance

Summary of PhD Thesis by Sonia Maria Dias. Full thesis available in Portuguese here.

Financial Accessibility of the Street Vendors in India: Cases of Inclusion and Exclusion

From the Executive Summary: “Street vendors are one of the most marginalised, poor as well as vulnerable sectors of the urban informal...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Accra Metropolis

WIEGO’s Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal...

Certification of Occupational Skills: A Decisive Step Towards Professionalizing Waste Picking as an Occupation and Recycling of Solid Waste in Colombia

This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economyLondon School of Economics and Political Science

This paper uses the case of Uganda’s capital Kampala to explore how political configurations overturn structures of city governance, with...

Comercio ambulante en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México

Literature Survey: Mega-Events and the Working Poor, with a Special Reference to the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Bangkok’s Foodscape: Public Eating, Gender Relations and Urban Change