Theme: Urban Planning and Design

O Fórum Municipal Lixo e Cidadania: Uma plataforma de Inclusão Social e Participação

Intentions, Design and Outcomes: Reflections on IHSDP in Maharashtra

This paper examines the implementation of the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme in the smaller cities of Maharashtra. It...

Waste Pickers’ Recognition as Public Waste Managers in Colombia

Presentation prepared for the Conference “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South.”

Street Vendors and Cities

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

Urban Livelihoods: Reviewing the Evidence in Support of the New Urban Agenda

The New Urban Agenda, the 20-year strategy on sustainable urbanization, was formally adopted by over 160 countries at the United Nations...

Street Traders and the Emerging Spaces for Urban Voice and Citizenship in African Cities

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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...

Impatient Optimists – Stories of the Urban Working Poor

A blog managed by the Global Development group at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It tells the stories of the urban working poor throughout...

Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente, Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal (Ficha Técnica)

Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

National Brazilian Waste Policy

“This is a law document. This law establishes the Brazilian National Policy on Solid Waste; it amends the Law no. 9,605, February 12,...