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Showing 1 to 20 of 163 for “"informality"”.
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Informality in the City: a Theoretical Analysis
This thesis theoretically studies the relationship between the informal sector (both in the labor and the housing market) and the city structure.
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Support structures as an approach to informality
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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A socio-ecological systems perspective on planning for informality
… JJCs, that necessitates planning for informality, and that decentralized community-managed infrastructure provision may be a socio-ecologically sustainable alternative to current strategies of service provision. In Chapter 1, a city and basin-scale spatial analysis of Delhi's plans for …
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Informality, Precarity, and (Mis)classification: Regulating Platform Work in India
This thesis seeks to address the misclassification of location-based digital platform workers in India and examine the extent of protections that can be accorded to them within the framework of labour and constitutional rights. It firstly argues that the exclusion of platform workers from the …
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Youth Politics between Informality and State Violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
This thesis explores the complex politics of youth in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, as they negotiate between a globalized neoliberal economy and a very localized regime of state violence carried out by police. Situating youth politics in Kenya’s post-independence political history, it …
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Re-envisioning the Indian city : informality and temporality Sabrina Kleinenhammans.
Although informality constitutes an omnipresent and growing phenomenon in the cities of developing countries, planners pay limited attention to this sector. Moreover, current development schemes project Western-planning concepts onto Indian cities despite the fact that these models do not relate to …
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Urban epidemiology of labor informality in Bogotá: A neighborhood interactions approach
Usando datos georreferenciados sobre mercado laboral para la ciudad de Bogotá, se desarrolla una estrategia empírica para identificar el efecto de la tasa de informalidad en el vecindario sobre la probabilidad individual de conseguir un trabajo informal. Se encuentra evidencia de la existencia de …
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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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Enterprising Somali refugees in Cape Town: beyond informality, beyond the spaza shop
… business strategies, exceed by far narratives of informality, the spaza shop sector, and experiences of violence and xenophobia. This research broadens understandings of immigrant entrepreneurial activity in South African cities, and shift existing negative perceptions that depict refugees and …
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A human rights analysis of housing informality in Namibia: Challenges, ambitions, and misses
… patterns to deal with the scourge of housing informality in the country. The thesis flag these as the main attributors for the scope and severity the living conditions in informal settlements and/or the endemic housing poverty in the country. Addressing the scourge of housing informality in …
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Mapping Informality: An Approach to Classifying Sidewalk Informal Practices and Elements Through Street View Imagery
… Latin America, and Asia. In these contexts, informality, defined as unregulated commerce, adaptive reuse of space, incremental construction, and self-organized infrastructure, shapes the everyday choreography Jane Jacobs called the “sidewalk ballet.” Yet because governments rarely collect …
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Governance, informality and agency in the making of cross-border mopane worm livelihoods in Southern Africa
… between different governance arrangements and informality and their influence in configuring access to resources and cross-border markets. A key finding is that the inadvertent consequence of integrating multiple forms of governance and resultant interactions has led to the emergence of …
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Understanding the context of informality: urban planning under different land tenure systems in Mzuzu city, Malawi
… address and contain informal settlements, informality nonetheless continues to be the dominant form of shelter. However, there is insufficient understanding of how and why informality persists in the African urban context and why urban planning seems unable to engage with this aspect of …
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Urban informality and food environments: Obesogenicity, business operations, and governance in Cape Town’s informal food retail sector
Informal food retail 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 …
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Planning for the Margins: Mapping Conceptual Implications of Profound Intellectual Disability and Informality through Slovo Park, Johannesburg
Disability remains one of the most marginalized considerations within urban planning and social justice research and practice. Disability affords planning the critical conceptual lens of interdependence, moving beyond ideas of individualized independence. Interdependence is an especially salient …
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Valuing waste and wasting value: rethinking planning with informality by learning from skarrelers in Cape Town's Southern Suburbs
… value of public participation when planning with informality, for 14 skarrelers in Cape Town's Southern Suburbs, as well as the potential for a 'deepening' of democracy through more genuine and flexible forms of engagement and learning. This involves research participants setting the terms and …
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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
… global North contexts: the predominance of urban informality as a means for migrants to negotiate with institutions of power the allocation of substantive rights. Through their work, Nicaraguan migrants in La Carpio have been able to lay the fabric upon which their own continuous practice of …
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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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The Evolution of the Informal Economy and its Implications for Tax Policy in Zambia
… and even Government to call for more taxation of informality than currently exists. No estimates on the tax potential of the informal economy are available and so, it is difficult to tell whether this underperformance is largely due to ineffective taxation or rather, that that scope for taxation …
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