Urban Planning and Design

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...

The Regularization of Street Vending in Bhubaneshwar, India: A Policy Model

After years of conflict between street traders and local authorities, the city of Bhubaneshwar, India developed a public, private and community...

The Spatial Reproduction of Urban PovertyEconomic & Political Weekly

This article highlights, from the vantage point of workers in the resettlement colony, how the restructuring processes of large formal sector...

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...

Informalidad y Urbanismo Social en Medellín

La ciudad de Medellín, después de unas décadas de aislamiento e involución caracterizadas por altos índices de inseguridad, violencia y segregación...

The urban land debate in the global South: New avenues for researchGeoforum

Abstract: The global ‘land grab’ debate is going urban and needs a specific conceptual framework to analyze the diverse modalities through...

La ville durable, moteur de transformation sociale ? Regards croisés entre l’Europe, l’Amérique latine et les Caraïbes

The chapter is on pages 41-47.

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

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

Waste management and the workplace

Dislocating modernity: Identity, space and representations of street trade in Durban, South Africa

South Africa’s cities have experienced dramatic changes over the past decade. Cities are now home to a multiracial population, and have been...