Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Why the Poor Need Property Rights

Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban Environment

The New Urban Agenda envisages cities and human settlements that fulfil their social function. But what is a city’s “social function”? And...

Informação e trabalho: uma leitura sobre os catadores de material reciclável a partir das bases públicas de dados

People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...

WIEGO Report on the Policy Environment of Informal Urban Waste Pickers and Artisanal Mine Workers in Colombia

Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...

Chapter 3 – Different Sectors, Different Challenges

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...

Patterns and Practices of Spatial Transformation in Non-Metros: The Case of Tiruchengode

Urban transformation in Tiruchengode town in Tamil Nadu has been predominantly driven by processes internal to it. It has been driven by...

Location, Location, Location: The Life of a Refugee Street Barber in Durban, South Africa

Choma Choma Nalushaka made an arduous journey from war-torn Congo to South Africa—then waited years for his family to join him. He has established...