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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]

open access: yes, 2020
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]

open access: yesUrban Studies, 2018
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Urban Informality as a Site of Critical Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Development Studies, 2019
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban Design Dimension Of Informality At The Perimeter Of Brawijaya University And UIN Maliki Malang

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2018
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
doaj   +1 more source

L’informalité politique en ville. 8 chercheurs et 9 villes face aux modes de gouvernement urbain

open access: yesL'Espace Politique, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of the Saakashvili era reforms on informal practices in the Republic of Georgia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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]

open access: yes, 2019
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.
core   +2 more sources

Introduction: re-spatialising urban informality: reconsidering the spatial politics of street work in the global South

open access: yesIDPR. International Development Planning Review, 2019
Introduction: re-spatialising urban informality : reconsidering the spatial politics of street work in the global ...
Ilda Lindell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Building capacity towards what? Proposing a framework for the analysis of energy transition governance in the context of urban informality in Sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yes, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban informality in the Global North: (il)legal status and housing strategies of Ghanaian migrants in New York City

open access: yes, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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