Urban Planning and Design

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...

Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

Building Inclusive Cities: Highlights from the Inclusive Cities Project

This publication features case studies and profiles highlighting successful interventions by organizations of informal workers and includes...

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

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...

Managing Resources, Activities, and Risk in Urban India: The Impact of SEWA Bank

Private Sector Participation in Municipal Solid Waste Services in Developing Countries

Negotiating Formality: Informal Sector, Market, and State in Peru

Street Trade in Africa: A Review

Despite the advances in modern retailing, millions of people throughout the world still make their living partly or wholly through selling...