Urban Planning and Design

Waste Pickers 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...

Why the Poor Need Property Rights

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

Informal Labour Markets and Development

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...

Chapter 2 – Turning Warwick Around