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Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
McPhearson T   +23 more
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World Class Aspirations, Urban Informality, and Poverty Politics: A North–South Comparison

Antipode, 2020
Under the influence of the discourses and practices of global neoliberal urbanism, municipal administrations worldwide aspire to make their cities world class spaces, where informality is an anachronism and poverty can be made history.
E. Sheppard, Tony Sparks, H. Leitner
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The political economy of Zimbabwean Urban informality since 2000 – A contemporary governance dilemma

Development Southern Africa, 2020
The article explores the urban informality dilemma in Harare through the lens of a political economy theory. It examines the typologies of urban informality, the influence of political economy on urban informalities, and informs decision-making to ...
A. Matamanda   +3 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Urban Informality

2012
AbstractThis article examines contemporary understandings of the informal city and situates them in a broader history of ideas. It investigates why certain land uses and settlement patterns are designated as formal by the state while others are criminalized and maintained as informal, and considers the ownership and use of property, focusing on the ...
A. Roy
openaire   +2 more sources

Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning

Journal of the American Planning Association, 2005
A. Roy
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Challenges of urban informality in Indian smart cities

Dialogues in Human Geography, 2023
India's smart cities initiative signals a clear turn towards the corporatisation of urban governance by entrusting planning responsibilities to special purpose vehicles (SPV) constituted as public sector companies in place of elected municipal ...
Tathagata Chatterji
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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