Urban Planning and Design

Clandestine Geometries: Mapping Street Vending in Downtown São Paulo

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...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

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Securing Livelihoods: A Gendered Analysis of Support Interventions available to Street Traders in the Durban Metropolitan Area

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

Patterns and Practices of Spatial Transformation in Non-Metros: The Case of Tiruchengode

Urban transformation in Tiruchengode town in Tamil Nadu has been predominantly driven by processes internal to it. It has been driven by...

Legal reforms for the self-employed: three urban cases

Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed. This article examines...

Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...

Resisting the Entrepreneurial City: Street Vendors’ Struggle in Mexico City’s Historic Center

Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies,...

Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas