Urban Planning and Design

Planning as Practice? Governing Conjunctures and Informal Urbanisation in Solapur Town

Solapur is a town in Maharashtra with a vibrant industrial legacy, yet fraught with spatial and socio-economic divisions in the contemporary...

Urbanization and (In)Formalization

“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...

Wasted Citizenship: Reclaimers and the Privatised Expansion of the Public Sphere

Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.

The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African city

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The paradoxes of informalizing street trade in the Latin American city

Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

The Global City: Strategic Site/ New Frontier

Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa

Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

The bulk of Pakistan’s workforce is unorganized, and the data available do not depict the true picture, particularly of the number of women...