Urban Planning and Design

Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

Urban Design: Beyond Architecture at Scale

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Building Inclusive Cities: Highlights from the Inclusive Cities Project

Informal Traders and Planners in the Regeneration of Historic City Centres: The Case of Quito, Ecuador

A major reason for the regeneration of historic city centres in developing countries is the possibility of benefiting from the growing mobility...

Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Sudeste)

Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez   Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Centro-OesteNordeste NorteSul ...

Global Economic Crisis Study 1: Fact Sheet

Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation, and the Informal Workforce – Fact Sheet

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

Formalizing Street Vendors

Sally Roever, WIEGO’s Urban Research Director, gave this presentation at a dialogue on formalizing the informal economy in Montevideo, Uruguay...

IEMS: La Investigación-Acción Lleva y Resultados Concretos

VIDEO: The Gender and Waste Project, Brazil

In this video-message for the Urban Thinkers Campus WIEGO´s waste specialist Sonia Dias and the MNCR waste picker leader Madalena Duarte...