Urban Planning and Design

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...

Urbanization and (In)Formalization

“Law Exclusion Zones”: Mega-Events as Sites of Procedural and Substantive Human Rights ViolationsYale Human Rights and Development Law Journal

Abstract: In the Rio de Janeiro community of Vila Harmonia, nestled amidst the beachfront high-rises of the city’s growing middle and upper...

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

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

The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African city

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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...

La Crisis Economica Global y la Economía Informal Global: “Porciones cada vez menores de una torta que se hace mas pequena”

The Inner Thekwini Regeneration and Urban Management Programme (iTRUMP): Warwick Junction Experience

Presentation at WIEGO Colloquium, ‘World Class Cities’ and the Urban Informal Economy: Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor

The Global Urbanist

A website with “news and analysis of cities around the world”.

VIDEO: ILC 2014 – Myrtle Witbooi Speaks at Standards Committee

Myrtle Witbooi speaks at the International Labour Conference’s (ILC’s) Standards Committee, June, 2014. For More Information:Learn...