Global South
Cityscapes #4: After informality
In the fourth issue: a grouped series of reports, essays and interviews tracing a zigzag path connecting Tel Aviv to Naples to Berlin to Guangzhou, all cities where African migrants are a feature of the urban matrix.
10 cities: Informal Economy Monitoring Study
The Informal Economy Monitoring Study aims to provide credible, grounded evidence of a range of driving forces, both positive and negative, that affect conditions of work in the informal economy over time in 10 cities.
Assessing the impact of mega events on the working poor
This work aims to understand the multifaceted nature of the impact of mega events on the working poor and to publicise these findings.
Sustainable Urban Transitions
The project provides a platform for a number of leading research centres working on the potential of infrastructure transitions as a key driver for the remaking and reorganisation of urban life in both Southern and Northern contexts.
WIEGO – Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing’s Urban Programme
WIEGO is a global network focused on securing livelihoods for the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.
Cities & Development
This lecture was delivered by Professor Manuel Castells during his visit to Cape Town in 2009.
Cities and Development
Cities and Development brings into conversation debates from urban and development studies. It grapples with both the challenges and opportunities associated with rapid urban change and provides a critical assessment of current policy and planning responses to the contemporary urban challenge.
City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development
This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to cope with the hundreds of “mega-cities” of the developing world. These cities are the future, and the problems surrounding this influx of people–slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance–have been well-documented.
City Life from Jakarta
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar examines the potentials of urban life through reflections on cities in Africa and Southeast Asia. It shows how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is actually critical to it and thereby opens up new ways for understanding what it is possible to do in cities from now on.
Methodology for Inventorying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities
This paper describes the methodology and data used to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to ten cities or city-regions: Los Angeles County, Denver City and County, Greater Toronto, New York City, Greater London, Geneva Canton, Greater Prague, Barcelona, Cape Town and Bangkok.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities
The world’s population is now over 50 % urban, and cities account for the majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many cities are developing strategies to reduce their emissions. Here we show how and why emissions differ between cities.
Housing, Citizenship & The Movimento Sem Teto OF São Paulo
This paper examines the use of a discourse of citizenship by the leaders and members of the São Paulo housing movement, the Uniao de Movimentos de Moradia, and illustrates how they ‘see the state’ (Corbridge et al. 2005) and mobilize their members.