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Naledzani Mudau and Paidamwoyo Mhangara
Research on the detection of informal settlements has increased in the past three decades owing to the availability of high- to very-high-spatial-resolution satellite imagery. The achievement of development goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goal...
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Savis Gohari, Dirk Ahlers, Brita F. Nielsen and Eivind Junker
A pragmatic and polity-focused solution for governing a smart city in the direction of sustainability is still missing in theory and practice. A debate about whether a smart city is a pragmatic solution for modern challenges or just a technology-led urba...
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Liora Bigon
This commentary points to the problems inherent in critical place names studies in terms of classic research topics, methodologies and geographies. It expounds the limits of the official ?index?, that is, the variety of traditional urban inscriptions on ...
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Yuan Gao, Sina Shahab and Negar Ahmadpoor
Urban villages play an important role in providing affordable housing to urban migrants in Chinese cities. They are considered as supplementary to the dual rural-urban system in China. Of central importance to studying urban villages is how the morpholog...
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Roberto Gallardo Del Angel
This paper contains a comparative analysis on gross flows of workers in Mexico considering the concepts of informal sector and informal work included in the Mexican National Survey of Occupations and Employment (ENOE). We estimated the flows and transiti...
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Cristian Darío Castillo Robayo,Javier García Estévez
Pág. 101 - 127
Young people face unique obstacles in their search for a productive work life, and more frequently than adults. Employment indicators for young people?such as unemployment rate, precarious employment, income, among others?are significantly worse than tho...
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Álvaro Forteza, Cecilia Noboa
Pág. 31 - 59
We argue that societies sometimes choose not to enforce the law to gain ?flexibility?. Especially developing countries face a dilemma between discretion and commitment to only partially-contingent rules. Rules are good for incentives, but discretion may ...
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Ricardo Nogales, Pamela Córdova, Manuel Urquidi
Pág. 61 - 87
In this paper we assess the relationship between labor policies and market outcomes in Bolivia, accounting for a large informal sector mostly comprised of self-employed entrepreneurs. We calibrate a job search and matching model to reproduce labor market...
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Giovanni Vecchio
Everyday mobility practices are increasingly an element of interest for urban policy, as well as for suggesting alternative solutions to urban issues. Amongst their manifold contributions, practices can be relevant for securing individuals’ access ...
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Amy Richmond, Ian Myers and Hafisa Namuli
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...
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Jesper Katomero and Yola Georgiadou
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Giovanni Vecchio
Everyday mobility practices are increasingly an element of interest for urban policy, as well as for suggesting alternative solutions to urban issues. Amongst their manifold contributions, practices can be relevant for securing individuals? access to pla...
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Amy Richmond, Ian Myers and Hafisa Namuli
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...
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Hesam Kamalipour
Pág. 60 - 75
Informal settlements have become integral to the urban imagery of the cities across the global South. Forms of urban informality emerge and grow through some generative processes of self-organisation and incremental adaptations. While formal intervention...
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Thayaparan Gajendran, Graham Brewer, Goran Runeson, Andrew Dainty
Pág. 84 - 98
The complex interrelationships commonly enacted as a consequence of project team activity take a number of different forms, including those formally dictated by contract conditions. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that project performance is...
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Thayaparan Gajendran, Graham Brewer, Goran Runeson, Andrew Dainty
Pág. 84 - 98
The complex interrelationships commonly enacted as a consequence of project team activity take a number of different forms, including those formally dictated by contract conditions. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that project performance is...
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Nastaran Peimani and Hesam Kamalipour
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. Wh...
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Valerio Di Pinto, Antonio M. Rinaldi and Francesco Rossini
This paper explores the link between the current vision of the ?smart city? and the notion of urban autopoiesis understood as self-organized/managed urban systems. It seeks to highlight how the use of GIS analysis, applied to the study of informal settle...
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Magaly Faride Herrera Giraldo, Carlos Giovanni González Espitia
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Magaly Faride Herrera Giraldo, Carlos Giovanni González Espitia
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