Urban Planning and Design

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

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Getting Institutions Right? Local Government and Street Traders in Four South African Cities

Labour Conditions for Construction: Decent Work, Building Cities and The Role of Local Authorities

Reclaiming Reusable and Recyclable Materials in Africa – A Critical Review of English Language Literature

This paper seeks to include Africa in the current international conversations about the situation of informal workers such as waste pickers....

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

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It’s Time to Welcome the Informal Workforce to the Urban Policy Table

In the first of a series of articles on urban livelihoods focused on inclusive urban planning for the working poor produced through a collaboration...

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

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...

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,...

The nature of the South African informal sector as reflected in the quarterly labour-force survey, 2008-2014

Abstract of this REDI working paper: This paper presents an analysis of the nature of, and recent trends in, the South African informal sector...