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

“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...

Literature Survey: Informality and Planning

Firmes Multinationales, Commerce Ambulant et Mobilité à Mexico

Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

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