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Disability & SocietyTaking a Global South perspective, we investigate the influence of informality and socio-cultural norms on the mobility and participation of people with mobility impairments in public activities.
Lambang Septiawan +2 more
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Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity
Ecology and SocietyInformality is a distinguishing characteristic of cities in the Global South and is strongly associated with urban inequality. Yet, in pursuing resilience, urban resilience strategies and planning have yet to grapple with the role of informality in ...
Hallie Eakin +7 more
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INFORMALITY AS THE UR‐FORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur‐ in Urban Studies
International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchAfter 50 years of research on urban informality, why is it that we seem unable to either clearly define this concept or move beyond it? On the one hand, urban informality is identified with ‘slums’ and substandard outcomes, on the other, with deregulated
Kim Dovey
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Governing urban informality: re-working spaces and subjects in Kampala, Uganda
IDPR. International Development Planning Review, 2019 This article addresses evolving ways of governing urban informality that increasingly draw upon the management of space.
Ilda Lindell, C. Ampaire, A. Byerley
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L'Espace Politique, 2016 This article explores the dimensions of informality behind the scenes of Rímac’s local government, a central district of the Peruvian capital, Lima. The municipality’s capacity to oversee urban development is challenged by the magnitude of its problems ...
Jérémy Robert, Pascale Metzger
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Post-Soviet informality: towards theory-building [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest that informal practices and institutions of post-Soviet countries differ from informality in other post-socialist regions and, therefore, proposes categorizing it as “post-Soviet informality” – a ...
Aliyev, Huseyn
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Urban Science, 2022 The imperative to address the challenge of transforming car-dependent cities and promoting sustainable mobilities requires that we engage with the relationships between urban morphology and forms of urbanity in public spaces surrounding transit nodes ...
Nastaran Peimani, Hesam Kamalipour
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Informalité politique, pouvoirs et envers des espaces urbains
L'Espace Politique, 2016 Introductory article of the issue 29 (2016-2) of the journal L’Espace politique entitled "Political Informality, Power and the Other Side of Urban Space"
Sébastien Jacquot +2 more
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The unplanned city: Public space and the spatial character of urban informality
Emerald Open Research, 2020 The ‘unplannable’ is a welcomed exception to the formal order of urban planning. This opinion article explores some examples of informal urbanism and discusses its ambiguous relationship to public space and unplanned activities in the city.
Steffen Lehmann
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 There is a great deal of concern over the scattered, fragmented expansion of cities, particularly in developing countries. This expansion accelerates the peri-urbanization processes expressed in a range of land uses, often with a concentration of the ...
A. Aguilar, M.A.A. Flores, L. F. Lara
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