Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Integrating Waste Pickers into Municipal Solid Waste Management in Pune, India

No person should have to be immersed in solid waste for their livelihood, yet every day hundreds of thousands of informal waste pickers in...

The Informal City Reader

From the book’s website: Over the past year, the online magazine Next City has chronicled stories from the informal realm as part of...

New Practices of Waste Management – Case of Mumbai

Working Paper No. 35 in the SP Working Paper Series of School of Planning of CEPT University

Extending Livelihood Opportunities and Social Protection to Empower Poor Urban Informal Workers in Asia

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...

If Street Food Disappears — Projecting the Cost for Consumers in Bangkok

Part I: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

The Politics of Urban Space in Mumbai: ‘Citizens’ versus the Urban Poor

Informal Governance and Organizational Success: The Effects of Non-Compliance among Lima’s Street Vending Organizations

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