Urban Informality and Vulnerability: A Case Study in Kampala, Uganda
, 2018 Urbanization increasingly means that the poorest, most vulnerable people move into large, highly distressed informal areas. These areas exhibit high levels of poverty and inequality. This paper uses Kampala, Uganda to identify drivers of vulnerability in
A. Richmond, Ian Myers, Hafisa Namuli
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DIVERSITY OF ETHNICITY AND STATE INVOLVEMENT ON URBAN INFORMALITY IN BEIRUT [PDF]
Urban informality has become the dominant feature of urban growth on Beirut City and its periphery. Beirut context, as the rest of Lebanese cities, sheds light on a new era of controversy on urban informality.
Ahmed M. SOLIMAN
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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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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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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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The Mexican Wage Curve 2000-2003: A Quantile Analysis [PDF]
, 2012 This paper exploits the Mexican Encuesta Nacional de Empleo Urbano (ENEU) to determine the existence of the wage curve—an empirical phenomena first suggested by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990)—during the period 2000–2003. We propose an innovative approach
Gutierrez Rufrancos, Hector Elias
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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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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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Collective learning experiences in planning: the potential of experimental living labs [PDF]
, 2015 ‘Living labs’ originate from an R&D environment, and intend to innovate commodities by experience-based knowledge, with a direct involvement of users. Meanwhile, the living labs approach has been shifting into a wider range of applications, and has also ...
Dehaene, Michiel +2 more
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No. 01: Hungry Cities of the Global South [PDF]
, 2016 The recent inclusion of an urban Sustainable Development Goal in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda represents an important acknowledgement of the reality of global urbanization and the many social, economic, infrastructural and political challenges ...
Crush, Jonathan
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