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Urban informality and the state: Repairing Cairo’s waters through Gehood Zateya

, 2021
Equitable and just access to urban water presents challenges for global policymakers. In Egypt, providing and maintaining access to water has always been associated with the state.
N. Wahby
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Neither friend nor enemy: Planning, ambivalence and the invalidation of urban informality in Zimbabwe

Urban studies, 2020
Planning relies on the strict classification and disposition of things in space. Intended to establish and maintain order, planning’s classifying practices are reinforced by binarisms that revolve around legality/illegality.
A. Kamete
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Urban Informality

2003
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends.
Ananya Roy, Nezar AlSayyad
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Historicising Urban Economic Informality

2021
This chapter examines the historical emergence and evolution of urban economic informality in general and in the African continent as well as South African and Zimbabwean cities in particular. Parts of Africa with a long history of precolonial urban development, such as West Africa had entrenched urban economic informality which survived colonial ...
Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo
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Urban Informality

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, 2019
KEY MESSAGES • The intersection of rapid urbanization with informality in work and housing poses significant challenges for adapting to the impacts of climate change.
Debolina Kundu
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Urban informality, housing insecurity, and social exclusion; concept and case study assessment for sustainable urban development

City, Culture and Society, 2018
The challenge of sustainable urban development is a global one and it affects the quality of livelihoods. This study investigates urban informality, housing insecurity, and social exclusion (UHS) in Hong Kong and Lagos metropolis to understand the ...
O. Soyinka, K. Siu
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A focus on needs: toward a more nuanced understanding of inequality and urban informality in the global North

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change, 2018
In recent years, there has been an increase in work on urban informality in Northern cities. While this newfound focus is welcome, a problem arises when it comes to conceptualizing various practices under study.
R. Devlin
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Urban Information Systems and Sustainable Urban Development

1998
Regional Science has recently formulated a number of new methodological approaches and some quite sophisticated models, many of which relate to the understanding of a systemic approach to urban realities and the search for tools for its development, beginning with the improvement of decision-making processes.
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