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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Urban informality"”.
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Urban informality and food environments: Obesogenicity, business operations, and governance in Cape Town’s informal food retail sector
… is a central yet understudied component of urban food environments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While its role in enhancing food access and food security is well documented, less attention has been paid to the types of food sold in these outlets and their implications for …
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Urban Informality, Environmental Xenophobia, and Infrastructures of Citizenship: The Political Lives of Nicaraguan Migrants in the Informal Settlement of La Carpio, Costa Rica
<p>This dissertation examines urban politics, environmental justice, and infrastructure from the vantage point of South-South migration. It focuses on the work of Nicaraguan migrants living in the informal settlement of La Carpio in San José, Costa Rica, as they negotiate rights in the form of …
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Ghanaians in the Bronx: (il) Legal Status and Pathways to Housing
… providers, and intermediaries. This study adapts urban informality theory by adjoining it with the concepts of migrant enclaves, social capital, and survival strategies. Urban informality describes informal settlements in the Global South that arise due to suspended sovereignty, where the state …
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Vending the city : mapping the policy, policing and positioning of street vending in New York City
… the absence of meaningful, in-depth datasets on urban informality, studies investigating this variation have had to rely on case studies, anecdotal material and qualitative neighborhood comparisons. As a result, there have been no large-scale empirical studies undertaking city-wide analysis of …
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The Story of Rubina: Lessons on Self-governance in Peruvian informal settlements and Considerations for Community Land Trusts
… property policies failed to intervene in urban informality. Second, I conduct interviews to gather evidence on the self-governance of an informal settlement in Lima and compare it with the core components of different global CLT theories and models. Finally, I intersect both sections to …
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Shaping Streetscapes within the Complexities of Urban Informalities in the Cape Flats
… for trading. KEY WORDS: Landscape Architecture, urban informality, streetscape design, place making principles, infrastructural intervention, cultural activities, Cape Flats, inclusivity,informal social and economic activities.
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Physical space and its role in the production and reproduction of violence in the "slum wars" in Medellin, Colombia (1970s-2013)
… often make a tacit linkage between the spaces of urban informality ("slums"), crime and violence. This occurs in academic circles-as exemplified by the common occurrence that when researchers seek to understand urban crime and violence, they tend to study urban informal spaces (slums, favelas, …
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Urban complex : between institutions and space
… cities. Growing population density and a booming urban economy in the past decades have created an incentive to re-utilize more lucratively mid- and large-scale, mix-use buildings that occupy prime locations in cities. In these buildings where the current usage exceeds the allowed occupancy and …
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The right to the city and environmental justice in urban South Africa
South Africa’s current urban landscape is characterised by urban informality, inequality, and failing service delivery. Urban areas are further confronted with challenges such as increasing numbers of people, pressure on built environment infrastructure, pollution, and natural resources such as …
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Decolonising the Informal: Discourse, Everyday Life, and the Politics of Urbanisation in Windhoek, Namibia
… post-colonial Namibia, the concept of informality is widely applied with reference to the ‘informal economy’ and ‘informal settlements’, which are rapidly overtaking formal urbanisation processes inherited from colonial times. All the while, conventional professional spatial practices …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… examines the relationship between economic informality, political behavior, and public goods provision. In three papers, it explores how seemingly nonpolitical everyday social institutions and collective action rooted in economic informality help extend the reach of the state and advance …
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Power, participation and everyday politics within state-led urban renewal in Hong Kong
… participation, and everyday politics shape urban renewal outcomes in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has a long history of state-led urban renewal, which continues to lead to displacement and change the form and function of neighbourhoods. Driven by profit, and a culture in which redevelopment …
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Cairo Contracted: Investigating the ᶜAshwā’iyyāt (Informal Settlements) through the Dynamics of Construction
… portrayed through stark political, economic, and urban challenges. One of its most prominent characteristics is the prevalence of its so-called informal settlements, the ‘Ashwā'iyyāt, which accommodate a staggering 70 percent of Cairenes, and are in many ways illegally constructed. While Cairo’s …
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A socio-ecological systems perspective on planning for informality
… without considering the informal a part of the urban fabric is too precarious. In Delhi, the river Yamuna is polluted by thousands of kilometers of open-access nullahs (stormwater drains) being used to dispose waste. This includes waste from ~250 jhuggi jhopdi clusters or JJCs (slums) along …
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The Role of the State in Urban Development: The Case of Urban Waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt
… in Middle East cities in the face of rising urban inequalities and grassroots mobilisation efforts. National governments and international donors continue to provide apolitical technical explanations to infrastructural failures in Cairo, but remain silent on systemic inequalities cemented by …
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Mapping transitional urban forms The form of the in-formal in Sub-Saharan Africa
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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The production of marginality. Paradoxes of urban planning and housing policies in Cali, Colombia
… wide gamut of policies during the last 70 years, urban marginality persists in most Latin American cities. Although this condition has been strongly associated with informal settlements, the premise underpinning this research is that marginality can be produced by the state through the …
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Gated Transformations: Exploring the Intersection of Policy, Private Development, and Urban Living in Accra
… and over 300,000 in Accra, driven by rapid urbanization, population growth, and underinvestment in affordable housing. In 2023, the government of Ghana launched the Revised Affordable Housing Program dubbed " My Home My Peace," which sought to create an enabling environment for the private …