Urban Planning and Design

Housing and Urban Service Needs of Home-Based Workers: Findings From a Seven-Country Study

This policy brief considers linkages between urban infrastructure and livelihood issues for home-based workers. It is based on a series of...

Promoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South Africa

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

Urban Design: Beyond Architecture at Scale

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Resisting the Entrepreneurial City: Street Vendors’ Struggle in Mexico City’s Historic Center

Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies,...

Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas

Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

Managing Resources, Activities, and Risk in Urban India: The Impact of SEWA Bank

Informal Economy, Undeclared Work and Labour Administration

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