Urban Planning and Design

Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits: Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India’s Informal Sector

This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration...

Exploring the Role of Improved Access to Public Goods and Services

This paper reports on a Policy Dialogue of the JWP (Joint Work Programme) Annual Meeting 2016. WIEGO is one of the Cities Alliance members...

Informality, Housing and Work: The View from Indian Cities

This document will focus on answering a specific set of questions concerning linking informality, housing and work.

Building Inclusive Cities: Highlights from the Inclusive Cities Project

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,...

The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models

Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...

Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE

Policies, Regulations and Organizational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya

IDS Discussion Paper Number 299

Seeing from the South: Refocusing urban planning on the globe’s central urban issues

Recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – An Overview of Inclusive Programming

Brazil is one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers in solid waste management systems, and Belo Horizonte...