Urban Planning and Design

It’s Time to Welcome the Informal Workforce to the Urban Policy Table

In the first of a series of articles on urban livelihoods focused on inclusive urban planning for the working poor produced through a collaboration...

Informal Economic Strategies: Advocacy For Street Vendors In Brazil

This paper is an introduction to informal labor; the politico-territorial characteristics of street vendor commerce in the city of Sao Paolo;...

Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?

This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO’s website with permission from Next City.

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...

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...

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...

Street Vendors in the Global Urban Economy

The Struggle for the Streets: Processes of Exclusion and Inclusion of Street Traders in Durban, South Africa