All posts in Urban Planning and Design
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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
Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food Sellers
WIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne...
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City/Country Level Reports
Trajectories and Memories – Waste and Citizenship Forums: Unique Experiments of Social Justice and Participatory Governance
Summary of PhD Thesis by Sonia Maria Dias. Full thesis available in Portuguese here.
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Research Reports
Social Security for Street Vendors
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Journal Articles
Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City
Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...
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Research Reports
Urban Design: Beyond Architecture at Scale
Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.
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Books & Book Chapters
Building Inclusive Cities: Highlights from the Inclusive Cities Project
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Journal Articles
Resisting the Entrepreneurial City: Street Vendors’ Struggle in Mexico City’s Historic Center
Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies,...
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Research Reports
Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Centro-Oeste)
Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Nordeste NorteSudeste Sul ...
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Research Reports
Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities
Abstract:
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