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Informal urbanism in the state of uncertainty: forms of informality and urban health emergencies [PDF]
URBAN DESIGN International, 2020 Forms of informality—ranging from informal settlements to street vending and informal transport—have become integral, yet not necessarily limited to how cities of the global South work. Our aim in this paper is to explore the dynamics of informal urbanism in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the extent to which forms of informality can adapt in the
Kamalipour, Hesam, Peimani, Nastaran
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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]
, 2013 The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2021 The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce', edited by Eveline Dürr and Julianne Müller, Lexington Books ...
Aiko Ikemura Amaral
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Zimbabwe's unemployed youth: On waithustlinghood, struggle for survival and political activism
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 This paper examines the extent to which Zimbabwe's economic crisis compelled its citizens, particularly the youth, to engage in urban informality in order to make a living.
Inocent Moyo
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Dimensi: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2022 Urban informality is a phenomenon of everyday life in Jakarta but has not been extensively discussed, especially in spatial design practice. Previous study shows that informal space in the city is shaped by economic activities and urban opportunities ...
Yohannes Basuki Dwisusanto +1 more
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The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa [PDF]
Labour Economics, 2011 Abstract This paper addresses the questions as to the size and causes of earnings differentials in two urban African labor markets, those of Ghana and Tanzania. We have panel data so we can ask how far time invariant unobservables, market ability for short, matters in the determination of earnings.
Falco, Paolo +4 more
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MUGABE’S POLICY LEGACIES ON URBAN POVERTY AND INFORMALITY IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE [PDF]
Revista Română de Geografie PoliticăZimbabwe gained independence in 1980 and had Mugabe as its first black president. Thirty-seven years later, Mugabe was, atypically, ousted from office. There exist controversies around his thirty-seven-year term.
Logistic MAKONI +2 more
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Urban Informality and the Built Environment [PDF]
Urban Informality and the Built Environment demonstrates the value of greater and more diverse forms of engagement of built environment disciplines in what constitutes urban informality and its politics.
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Métropoles, 2018 Since the mid-2000’s, several Anglophone authors have reevaluated the role of cities from the Global South within urban studies and the production of urban theory, seeking to break with the previous normative approach.
Sébastien Jacquot, Marie Morelle
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Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa? [PDF]
, 2023 We explore the relationship between household welfare and informality, measuring household informality as the share of members’ activities (hours worked or income) without social insurance.
Rufrancos, Héctor +2 more
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