Theme: Urban Planning and Design

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...

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...

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...

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...

Street Vendors and the Right to the City

Ambulantes e Direito à Cidade também está disponível em Português.

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.

Managing Urban Waste as Common Pool Resources

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

Budget Brief 1: Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

The Global City: Strategic Site/ New Frontier