Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India

The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women....

We Need to Start Respecting Informal Workers

In the midst of rapid urbanization, the question of whether and how to formalize the informal economy is a growing concern.

Nothing about us without us: A case study of the dynamics of the informal workplace in Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre

This research paper is part of the Development and Labour Monograph Series.

“Law Exclusion Zones”: Mega-Events as Sites of Procedural and Substantive Human Rights ViolationsYale Human Rights and Development Law Journal

Abstract: In the Rio de Janeiro community of Vila Harmonia, nestled amidst the beachfront high-rises of the city’s growing middle and upper...

Including the Excluded: Supporting Informal Workers for More Equal and Productive Cities in the Global South

This World Resources Institute (WRI) paper examines the challenges facing the world’s urban informal workers and the barriers that exclusionary...

Why the Poor Need Property Rights

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...

Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE

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

IDS Discussion Paper Number 299

Seeing from the South: Refocusing urban planning on the globe’s central urban issues