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El cirujeo en Buenos Aires

Cuaderno Urbano, 2009
Verónica Paiva (2008) Cartoneros y cooperativas de recuperadores. Una mirada sobre la recolección informal de residuos. Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, 1999-2007.
Martín Boy
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Neighbour‐Based Organisations as Social Infrastructure: Gathering, Channelling and Remaining in the Midst of Mexico City's Water Crisis

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.
Short Abstract This article examines how neighbour‐based organisations become social infrastructures in contexts of water scarcity. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the Water Defence Committee in Mexico City, it identifies three practices (gathering, channelling and remaining) through which organisations bring people together, shape resource ...
Andres Emiliano Sierra Martinez
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Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 5925-5940, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo, Berta Fernández‐Gallego   +1 more
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Incidencias de la migración interna en la reproducción de la economía informal

Tabula Rasa: Revista de Humanidades, 2018
Esta propuesta articula el origen de la economía informal a causa de la precarización y escasez del empleo. Se muestra a la migración interna: ciudad-ciudad y campo-ciudad, como elemento que dificulta la superación de la economía informal.
Diana Marcela Porras Díaz
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From Crisis to Resilience: Rethinking Urban Flooding and Groundwater Recharge in Bengaluru City, India

World Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Bengaluru, a primary metropolitan centre in India, is currently grappling with the dual crises of urban flooding and severe groundwater depletion. These challenges are driven by rapid urbanization, which has seen built‐up areas increase from 42% to 86% over two decades, resulting in a dramatic loss of vegetation and wetlands.
S. Biswas, S. V. B. Patel, B. Maheshwari
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Of cables and threads

American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
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Informal supply chains of wild meat from rural Amazonia and food security in an urban center

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Iquitos, the most populated city in the Peruvian Amazon, is a hub in the regional supply chain of wild meat and supplies urban consumers. Studies on wild meat consumption have focused primarily on markets, limiting the scope of species considered to those that are economically valuable and potential inferences from those data.
Fiorella Briceño Huerta, Michael P. Gilmore, Mark Bowler, Brian M. Griffiths   +3 more
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“Yo me defiendo”: entendiendo la informalidad laboral a partir del trabajo de las mujeres mototaxistas en Barranquilla, Colombia

Revista CS, 2019
Este artículo explora la interacción entre la informalidad laboral, las condiciones precarias del trabajo y el género, a través del lente de la experiencia subjetiva de las mujeres mototaxistas en Barranquilla, Colombia.
Lina Buchely, María Victoria Castro
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How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on policy diffusion, the ways in which policy attention influences this process remain underexplored. This study addressed this gap by distinguishing between three types of policy attention—political speeches, policy issuance and field visits—and investigating their differential impacts when delivered by central and ...
Xiangning Chen, Yahua Wang
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Grandes retos y aplicación de herramientas participativas en la planificación de la ciudad informal. El caso de Makeni, Sierra Leona

Urbano, 2018
El siguiente artículo indaga sobre la definición de modelos de planificación y herramientas de gestión para ciudades con crecimientos expansivos y amplios sectores informales, utilizando como caso de estudio la experiencia desarrollada en la ciudad ...
Luis Perea Moreno, Adela Salas Ruiz, Juan Arana Giralt   +2 more
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