All posts in Urban Planning and Design
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Working Papers
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...
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Technical Briefs
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...
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Journal Articles
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...
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Journal Articles
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...
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Books & Book Chapters
Street Vendors and the Right to the City
Ambulantes e Direito à Cidade também está disponível em Português.
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Journal Articles
Promoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South Africa
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.
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Research Reports
Street Vending: Politics and Possibilities for Inclusion Street Vendors & Engagement with the State
Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.
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Research Reports
One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure: A Comparative Analysis of Property Rights in Solid Waste
In this paper, the author argues that any system of legal rules that tries to exclude the waste pickers from the waste value chain results...
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Journal Articles
The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African city
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Briefs
Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City
This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.
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