Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economyLondon School of Economics and Political Science

This paper uses the case of Uganda’s capital Kampala to explore how political configurations overturn structures of city governance, with...

Informal Traders and Planners in the Regeneration of Historic City Centres: The Case of Quito, Ecuador

A major reason for the regeneration of historic city centres in developing countries is the possibility of benefiting from the growing mobility...

Countdown 2015: an assessment of basic provision to migrant families in the urban slums of Ludhiana, North India

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

Bangkok’s Foodscape: Public Eating, Gender Relations and Urban Change

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

Women Street Traders in Urban South Africa: A Synthesis of Selected Research Findings

Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 15

Deus é meu Despertador

Série Vida dos Trabalhadores. Dona Maria Brás foi uma força incansável na luta das cooperativas de catadores brasileiros contra a perseguição...

How to Plan a Street Trader Census

Street traders represent one of the largest and most visible segments of the informal economy, yet the actual number of street traders working...

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...