The governance of informality through slum policies in South Africa and Brazil
April 18Zora Kovacic, Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona The project analyses slum upgrading policies from the...
Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members
Filter by: All | Economic Crisis | Poverty discourse | Inequality | Difference: | Places: N. America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia
Visualities of Homelessness and Ecology: Of Hot Spots and High Lines
April 18Eric Goldfischer, PhD Student in Geography, University of Minnesota Cities have long tried to influence the ways in which homelessness, and...
Multi-sectoral approaches to poverty reduction: charity or change?
September 26Shauna MacKinnon, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Inner City Studies, University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Canada is a mid-size city in...
Who Governs the ‘Ungovernable’? Examining the Modes of Governance in Urban Informality
August 4Redento B. Recio, The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning, and Environmental Management Over the years, studies have noted...
Economic knowledge in the urban informal economy of Zaria, Nigeria
May 12Colin Marx, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London This research is framed within relational processes of...
Viviendo del rebusque: studying how law affects the working poor in Bogotá-Colombia
May 6Laura Porras, University of Ottowa My doctoral dissertation focuses on describing, understanding, analyzing and evaluating how both State and...
Local social innovation, welfare state restructuring and anti-poverty policies
May 2Stijn Oosterlynck, Associate Professor, Research Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City (OASeS), Department of Sociology,...
Governing the “Post-Conflict” City: Urban Futures in Bogotá
March 16Emma Shaw Crane, New York University The progressive urban planning projects of Bogotá, Colombia are celebrated globally as models of inclusion,...
Planning for property? (Counter)performing property within and beyond “land use” planning
March 4Trevor Wideman, PhD student @ Simon Fraser University This project questions the concept of “land use” as it has been used in the discipline...