Informality in Urban Metabolism
, 2022 There is an urgent need to optimize resource use in cities and the Urban Metabolism (UM) approach is widely adopted to quantify urban flows as it allows policymakers to translate results into action plans that mitigate resource consumption and associated emissions. It has also proved relevant to the establishment of evidence-based Circular Economy (CE)
Choueiri, Yasmina +2 more
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Unpackaging residential segregation: the importance of scale and informal market processes
Investigaciones Geográficas, 2010 This paper addresses two principal issues: a) the scale at which one examines urban segregation; and b) how informality, specifically accessibility to land markets and the process of land appropriation by low-income groups in Latin American cities ...
Peter M. Ward
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Informal Space in the Urban Waterscape: Disaggregation and Co-Production of Water Services
Water Alternatives, 2014 This special issue explores the realities of water provision in 'informal' urban spaces located in different parts of the world through eight empirical, case-based papers. The collection of articles shows that formality and informality are fluid concepts
Rhodante Ahlers +3 more
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Debates Paper: COVID-19 and urban informality: Exploring the implications of the pandemic for the politics of planning and inequality. [PDF]
Urban Stud, 2023 Shatkin G +2 more
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Motivations and livelihood dynamics in the urban informal economy: the case of Dire Dawa City, Eastern Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2021 Engida Esayas Dube
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How urban 'informality' can inform response to COVID-19: a research agenda for the future. [PDF]
Hist Philos Life Sci, 2021 Onditi F +3 more
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EchoGéo, 2019 The aim of this paper is to define the scope and an initial agenda for a critical geography of urban food collecting. It provides an overview of a multidisciplinary literature regarding patterns of foraging and scavenging to develop a theoretical ...
Flaminia Paddeu
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Policy and research frame of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: reflections on urban informality. [PDF]
Glob Health J, 2021 Zhang Y +4 more
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Déchets, mauvaises herbes et plantes sauvages
EchoGéo, 2019 The aim of this paper is to define the scope and an initial agenda for a critical geography of urban food collecting. It provides an overview of a multidisciplinary literature regarding patterns of foraging and scavenging to develop a theoretical ...
Flaminia Paddeu
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Towards an Indicator-Based Morphological Informality Model for Sub-Saharan Africa Using Open Building Footprint and Road Data (Version 1) [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesThis study addresses the challenge of accurately mapping informal settlements, which are home to over a billion people globally. Current maps often simplify these areas into binary categories, ignoring the nuanced dimensions of deprivation.
S. Hafner +16 more
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