Urban Planning and Design

Negotiating Formality: Informal Sector, Market, and State in Peru

Reclaiming Reusable and Recyclable Materials in Africa – A Critical Review of English Language Literature

This paper seeks to include Africa in the current international conversations about the situation of informal workers such as waste pickers....

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

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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...

Sin Colchón que Amortigüe la Caída: La Crisis Económica Global y los Trabajadores de la Economía Informal

Report available in English here. Informe disponible en español aquí. Fact Sheet available in English here. Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

Planning as Practice? Governing Conjunctures and Informal Urbanisation in Solapur Town

Solapur is a town in Maharashtra with a vibrant industrial legacy, yet fraught with spatial and socio-economic divisions in the contemporary...

‘Life Has Educated Me’: Building Interpersonal Networks through the Jadibanagar Slum Upgrading Project

This study is a jointly produced outcome from the reflection and sharing of group participants in the Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP)....

Urban livelihoods: reviewing the evidence in support of the New Urban Agenda

SUMMARY: The New Urban Agenda (NUA) recognizes the role played by the urban informal economy and makes bold commitments to inclusive urban...

The Roadmap to Sustainable and Inclusive Solid Waste Systems A Tale of two Cities

The chapter is on pages 41-47.

Waste management and the workplace