Urban Planning and Design

No Cushion to Fall Back On – Executive Summary

Report available in English here.Informe disponible en español aquí.Fact Sheet available in English here.Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

Informal Sector Integration and High Performance Recycling: Evidence from 20 Cities

The global informal recycling sector has come into focus as the base of the industrial value chain. With few exceptions, reports and articles...

Major International Events and the Working Poor: Selected Lessons for Social Actors Stemming from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa

This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing...

Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food Sellers

WIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne...

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....

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...

Informalidad y Urbanismo Social en Medellín

La ciudad de Medellín, después de unas décadas de aislamiento e involución caracterizadas por altos índices de inseguridad, violencia y segregación...

The urban land debate in the global South: New avenues for researchGeoforum

Abstract: The global ‘land grab’ debate is going urban and needs a specific conceptual framework to analyze the diverse modalities through...

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,...

Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly