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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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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 ...
Webster, C, Wu, F, Zhang, F
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Reproduction of urban informality in Iran: Its key factors, tools and challenges
Journal of Urban Management, 2022 Due partly to neoliberal policies—especially in developing countries—and as a result of globalization, urban informality has become an indisputable part of urbanization since the 1970s.
Kyoumars Habibi +3 more
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Pernicious assimilation: reframing the integration of the urban informal economy in Southern Africa [PDF]
, 2017 This paper argues that many of the official attempts to “integrate” the urban informal economy into the mainstream economy are fundamentally flawed. An unpacking of the “integrative” agenda as pursued by planning and other governmental practices reveals ...
Kamete, Amini Y.
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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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Of good plants and useless weeds: planning as a spatial technology of the gardening state [PDF]
, 2017 The article deploys Bauman’s metaphor of the ‘gardening’ state to consider the imbrication of planning and the dark side of modernity. It interrogates the public production and defence of urban spaces suitable for people deemed to have value.
Kamete, Amin Y.
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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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Street vending - a perpetual hustle: How street vendors in Hanoi’s Walking Street negotiate their existence [PDF]
Pacific Geographies, 2022 Street vendors make up an important part of the Vietnamese informal economy and carry a trait of the country’s urban DNA. However, they have long been the target of many regulations to create a modern and civilized city of Hanoi.
Nguyễn, Duy Linh
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