Theme: Urban Planning and Design

The Unorganized Sector and Urban Poverty: Issues in Livelihoods

The Politics of Classification and the Complexity of Governance in Census Towns

Spontaneous urbanisation through the transfer of capital from the agricultural sector to the commercial sector has given rise to a large...

‘Life Has Educated Me’: Building Interpersonal Networks through the Jadibanagar Slum Upgrading Project

This study is a jointly produced outcome from the reflection and sharing of group participants in the Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP)....

Street Vendors and Cities

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

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.

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,...

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...

Belo Horizonte Selective Waste Collection Programme

Constraints to Growth and Employment in Durban: Evidence from the Informal Economy

Urban India 2011: Evidence