Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Waste Pickers: Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

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Flexibility, Employment and Labor Market Reforms in India

May 27, 2006

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

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...

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...

How Street Vendors and Urban Planners Can Work Together

Sally Roever, WIEGO Urban Research Director, shows how an inclusive attitude towards street vendors and an understanding of how they fit...

The Regularising State

This article discusses a form of informality widely prevalent in small and medium cities in Maharashtra, called gunthewari. It is an examination...

Street Vendors and the Right to the City

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