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Adapting to informality: multistory housing driven by a co-productive process and the People’s Plans in Metro Manila, Philippines [PDF]
Faced with an ever-increasing demand for land in Metro Manila, as well as with the domination of standardised low-income housing models, the local civil society and the urban-poor sector embarked on the development of an alternative shelter approach in ...
Galuszka, Jakub
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Knowing urban informalities [PDF]
How do Anglophone urban scholars know urban informalities? This article reviews three dominant ways of knowing urban informality, noting that, despite the profoundly rich insights they each provide, two critiques of the overall concept endure. These are that the concept is often imprecise, and that the contribution to knowing ‘the urban’ more ...
Colin Marx, Emily Kelling
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Urban Informality as a Site of Critical Analysis
Across the Global South, the realities of urban informality are changing, with implications for how we understand this phenomenon across economic, spatial, and political domains.
N. Banks, M. Lombard, D. Mitlin
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Urban Design Dimension Of Informality At The Perimeter Of Brawijaya University And UIN Maliki Malang
Informality is one of the commonly emerged issues in urban design which rarely explored, especially informality within university’s perimeter. Brawijaya as one of the biggest and oldest University in Malang over time has boosted the development of ...
Tyaghita Cesarin Binar +2 more
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L’informalité politique en ville. 8 chercheurs et 9 villes face aux modes de gouvernement urbain
In 2010, a collective of 8 geographers and sociologists launched the research program “Informality, Power and the Other Side of Urban Spaces - Inverses”.
Collectif Inverses +8 more
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The effects of the Saakashvili era reforms on informal practices in the Republic of Georgia [PDF]
Since the 2003 Rose Revolution, the Georgian government implemented a number of major institutional reforms which have succeeded in modernising Georgia’s state institutions, reducing corruption and ‘formalising’ the public sector.
Aliyev, Huseyn
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De-westernizing creative labour studies: The informality of creative work from an ex-centric perspective [PDF]
Creative labour studies focus almost exclusively on Euro-American metropolitan ‘creative hubs’ and hence the creative worker they theorize is typically white, middle-class, urban and overwhelmingly male.
Alacovska, A., Gill, R.
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Introduction: re-spatialising urban informality : reconsidering the spatial politics of street work in the global ...
Ilda Lindell
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There is an emerging scholarship that criticises the conceptualisation of urban informality from a deficit view and emphasises that informality constitutes a way of life, a practice in its own right.
Z. Kovacic +8 more
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Different legal statuses of migrants are known to affect housing opportunities in the destination cities. The research explores the housing journeys of Ghanaian migrants in the Bronx in New York City to understand the processes by which poor documented ...
M. Usman, Sabina Maslova, G. Burgess
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