Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Informality as the Bane of the Laboring Poor Under Globalized Capitalism

Note from the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Wasted Citizenship: Reclaimers and the Privatised Expansion of the Public Sphere

Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.

Urban Informality: Towards an Epistemology of Planning

The study of cities is today marked by a paradox: much of the urban growth of the 21st century is taking place in the developing world, but...

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

Recovering resources, creating opportunities: Integrating the informal sector into solid waste management

Eficiência e Solidariedade nas Associações de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis

As associações e cooperativas de catadores são formadas a partir da situação de vulnerabilidade social dos seus membros. A maior parte dos...

Integração de Trabalhadores Informais na Coleta Seletiva de Recicláveis: o Caso de Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Esta nota informativa traz uma análise mais detalhada sobre a gênese e os elementos chaves da política pública voltada para a integração...

Improving the Regulatory Framework for Income Enhancement of the Urban Poor: A Case Study of Lima

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...