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Author: Alison Brown
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317280091
Size: 74.47 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-02-24
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Rebel Streets And The Informal Economy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the global south are engaged in spatial and political battlegrounds to reclaim space, and claim de facto property rights over their place of work, through quiet infiltration, union power, or direct action. This book explores 'rebel streets', the challenges faced by informal economy actors and how organised groups are seeking to reframe legal understandings to create new claims to space and urban rights. The book sets out new thinking and a conceptual framework for improved understanding of the plural relationship between law, rights, and space for the informal economy, the contest between traditional, modernist and rights-based approaches to development, and impacts on the urban working poor. With a focus on street trading, the book seeks to reframe the legal context in which modern informal economies operate, drawing on key areas of academic inquiry and case studies of how vendors are staking claim to urban rights. The book argues for a reconceptualisation of legal instruments to provide a rights-based framework for urban work that recognises the legitimacy of urban informal economies, the scope for collective management of urban resources, and the social value of public space as a site for urban livelihoods. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, economics, urban studies, development studies, political studies and law.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alison Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317280083
Size: 33.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-02-24
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Rebel Streets And The Informal Economy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the global south are engaged in spatial and political battlegrounds to reclaim space, and claim de facto property rights over their place of work, through quiet infiltration, union power, or direct action. This book explores 'rebel streets', the challenges faced by informal economy actors and how organised groups are seeking to reframe legal understandings to create new claims to space and urban rights. The book sets out new thinking and a conceptual framework for improved understanding of the plural relationship between law, rights, and space for the informal economy, the contest between traditional, modernist and rights-based approaches to development, and impacts on the urban working poor. With a focus on street trading, the book seeks to reframe the legal context in which modern informal economies operate, drawing on key areas of academic inquiry and case studies of how vendors are staking claim to urban rights. The book argues for a reconceptualisation of legal instruments to provide a rights-based framework for urban work that recognises the legitimacy of urban informal economies, the scope for collective management of urban resources, and the social value of public space as a site for urban livelihoods. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, economics, urban studies, development studies, political studies and law.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lutfun Nahar Lata
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000848604
Size: 11.55 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2023-03-09
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Spatial Justice Contested Governance And Livelihood Challenges In Bangladesh eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Using data collected through extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, the book contributes to the emerging scholarship of resilient cities, gendered space, spatial justice, and poverty in cities of the Global South. The book assesses the everyday politics of survival for the urban poor; how the poor negotiate different levels of formal and informal modes of power and governance; and the dynamics of gender. It explores how tenuous counterspaces are created when these factors combine to provide a valuable framework for work in other urban contexts in the Global South beyond Bangladesh. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives, this book investigates the issues of human development, urban governance, urban planning and the gendered nature of urban space to outline how these issues enable or constrain poor people’s livelihood practices and their rights to be in the city. Exploring debates surrounding placemaking and inclusive cities and their connection to poor people’s livelihoods, this book will be of interest to scholars in the field of Sociology, Development Studies, Planning, Geography and Anthropology.

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Book Detail:
Author: Krys Ochia
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030875563
Size: 14.48 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2022-01-01
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Marketplace Trade And West African Urban Development eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book analyses how informal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities. According to the World Bank, being an African reduces the probability that an individual is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing sector by more than 95 percent. Exporting unprocessed strategic raw materials and importing large volumes of finished goods stagnate Africa’s informal sector while creating formal jobs overseas. This suggests employment increases in distributive trade and persistence of the marketplace institution in reducing urban unemployment and income inequality. However, there is limited knowledge of the men and women with permanent stalls in large urban marketplaces that function daily as a temporary city within a city, even though they are the major actors in distribute trade. More important their daily out-of-stall contacts resulting from maintaining complex social and economic relationships that determine the financial health of family, business, and the economy are generally unexplored and largely unknown, but have significant unintended consequences on the urban mobility system. Researchers, planners, development practitioners and policymakers have, therefore, not focused their attention and considered the impacts of the powerful economic institution – marketplaces and traders - in framing transport planning processes and urban development policies, and that is the paradox surrounding marketplace trade and urban development in West Africa.

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Book Detail:
Author: Abusaada, Hisham
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522592407
Size: 18.58 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2019-06-28
Category: Architecture
Language: en
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Download PDF Handbook Of Research On Digital Research Methods And Architectural Tools In Urban Planning And Design eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The efficient usage, investigation, and promotion of new methods, tools, and technologies within the field of architecture, particularly in urban planning and design, is becoming more critical as innovation holds the key to cities becoming smarter and ultimately more sustainable. In response to this need, strategies that can potentially yield more realistic results are continually being sought. The Handbook of Research on Digital Research Methods and Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design is a critical reference source that comprehensively covers the concepts and processes of more than 20 new methods in both planning and design in the field of architecture and aims to explain the ways for researchers to apply these methods in their works. Pairing innovative approaches alongside traditional research methods, the physical dimensions of traditional and new cities are addressed in addition to the non-physical aspects and applied models that are currently under development in new settlements such as sustainable cities, smart cities, creative cities, and intercultural cities. Featuring a wide range of topics such as built environment, urban morphology, and city information modeling, this book is essential for researchers, academicians, professionals, technology developers, architects, engineers, and policymakers.

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Book Detail:
Author: Joseph N. Mojekwu
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030688364
Size: 79.35 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2021-04-16
Category: Technology & Engineering
Language: en
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Download PDF Sustainable Education And Development eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book presents papers from the 9th Applied Research Conference in Africa (ARCA), showcasing the latest research on sustainable education and development. The conference is focused on applied research discussion and its dissemination, developing understanding about the role of research and researchers in the development of the continent. ARCA gathers papers which explain how key education is to transforming lives, eradicating poverty and driving sustainable development in Africa. Presenting high quality research about developing economies, construction, education and sustainability, this proceedings will be of interest to academics, postgraduate students, and industry professionals.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Garbin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350152609
Size: 42.34 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2022-11-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Ideologies And Infrastructures Of Religious Urbanization In Africa eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion. Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change, deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in Africa.

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Book Detail:
Author: Isabella Clough Marinaro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000540383
Size: 20.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2022-02-09
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Inhabiting Liminal Spaces eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how dynamics of rule-bending take shape in Rome today. Adopting a multiscalar and transdisciplinary approach, it unpacks how gaps and contradictions in institutional rulemaking and application force many residents into protracted liminal states marked by intense vulnerability. By merging a political economy lens with ethnographic research in informal housing, illegal moneylending, unauthorized street-vending and waste collection, the author shows that informalities are not marginal or anomalous conditions, but an integral element of the city’s governance logics. Multiple actors together construct the local cultural norms, conventions and moral economies through which rule-negotiation occurs. However, these practices are ultimately unable to reconfigure historically rooted power dynamics and hierarchies. In fact, they often aggravate weak urbanites’ difficulties in accessing rights and services. A study that challenges assumptions that informalities are predominantly features of developing economies or limited to specific groups and sectors, this volume’s critical approach and innovative methodology will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology interested in social theory, urban studies and liminality.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sandra C. Mendiola Garcia
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496200012
Size: 54.10 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2017-04
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Street Democracy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico's economically active population. Neither taxed nor monitored by the government, the informal sector is the fastest growing economic sector in the world. In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola Garc�a explores the political lives and economic significance of this otherwise overlooked population, focusing on the radical street vendors during the 1970s and 1980s in Puebla, Mexico's fourth-largest city. She shows how the Popular Union of Street Vendors challenged the ruling party's ability to control unions and local authorities' power to regulate the use of public space. Since vendors could not strike or stop production like workers in the formal economy, they devised innovative and alternative strategies to protect their right to make a living in public spaces. By examining the political activism and historical relationship of street vendors to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mendiola Garc�a offers insights into grassroots organizing, the Mexican Dirty War, and the politics of urban renewal, issues that remain at the core of street vendors' experience even today.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alexa Clay
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451688830
Size: 53.50 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2016-10-25
Category: Business & Economics
Language: en
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Download PDF The Misfit Economy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A book that argues that lessons in creativity, innovation, salesmanship, and entrepreneurship can come from surprising places: pirates, bootleggers, counterfeiters, hustlers, and others living and working on the margins of business and society.

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Book Detail:
Author: D. Coletto
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230113990
Size: 63.26 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2010-10-25
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Informal Economy And Employment In Brazil eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844678822
Size: 65.81 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2012-04-04
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Rebel Cities From The Right To The City To The Urban Revolution eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Explores cities as the origin of revolutionary politics, where social and political issues are always at the surface, using examples from such cities as New York City and Mumbai to examine how they can be better ecologically reorganized.

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Size: 54.21 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1995
Category: Developing countries
Language: en
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Download PDF Choices eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Bernard Jouve
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Lyon
ISBN:
Size: 43.32 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009
Category: City planning
Language: en
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Download PDF Urban Policies And The Right To The City eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Frederick C. v. N. Fourie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780796925343
Size: 44.98 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2018
Category: Economic development
Language: en
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Download PDF The South African Informal Sector eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Although South Africa's informal sector is small compared to other developing countries, it nevertheless provides livelihoods, employment and income for millions of workers and business owners. Almost half of informal-sector workers work in firms with employees. The annual entry of new enterprises is quite high, as is the number of informal enterprises that grow their employment. There is no shortage of entrepreneurship and desire to grow. However, obstacles and constraints cause hardship and failure, pointing to the need for well-designed policies to enable and support the sector, rather than suppress it. The same goes for formalisation. Recognising the informal sector as an integral part of the economy, rather than ignoring it, is a crucial first step towards instituting a 'smart' policy approach. The South African Informal Sector is strongly evidence- and data-driven, with substantial quantitative contributions combined with qualitative findings--suitable for an era of increased pressure for evidence-based policy-making--and utilises several disciplinary perspectives."--

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Book Detail:
Author: K. Hope
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Size: 32.96 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2008-09-15
Category: Business & Economics
Language: en
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Download PDF Poverty Livelihoods And Governance In Africa eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book analyzes the outstanding development problems confronting Africa today, and the policies necessary for improving Africa's governance, economic performance, and seeing the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jane Jacobs
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 052543285X
Size: 17.40 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016-07-20
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Death And Life Of Great American Cities eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition.

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Book Detail:
Author: Infobase Holdings, Inc.
Publisher: Ferguson Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780894344213
Size: 30.95 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2001-08
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Culturegrams eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Meredith Glaser
Publisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN: 9059727142
Size: 45.99 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2012
Category: Architecture
Language: en
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Download PDF The City At Eye Level eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Although rarely explored in academic literature, most inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. Storefronts, first floor apartments, and sidewalks are the most immediate and common experience of a city. These “plinths” are the ground floors that negotiate between inside and outside, the public and private spheres. The City at Eye Level qualitatively evaluates plinths by exploring specific examples from all over the world. Over twenty-five experts investigate the design, land use, and road and foot traffic in rigorously researched essays, case studies, and interviews. These pieces are supplemented by over two hundred beautiful color images and engage not only with issues in design, but also the concerns of urban communities. The editors have put together a comprehensive guide for anyone concerned with improving or building plinths, including planners, building owners, property and shop managers, designers, and architects.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sian Lazar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822341543
Size: 23.12 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2008-01-04
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF El Alto Rebel City eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. El Alto, Rebel City combines ethnography and political theory to explore the astonishing political power exercised by the indigenous citizens of El Alto, Bolivia in the past decade.

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