A început ploaia – Fighting for the right to housing in Bucharest
April 26Michele Lancione, Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield Accordingly to Amnesty International, in Romania ‘the right to housing is not...
Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members
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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...
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...
Living the Dream: youth, unemployment, and the promise of a middle-class life in Cairo
May 1Harry Pettit, London School of Economics The rise of a Global Middle Class has been lauded by development institutions, the media, and academia...
Political infrastructure: community wireless mesh networks and urban politics
March 24Emma Slager, University of Washington In this project, I examine community-built Internet infrastructure as it relates to broader struggles for...
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...
Regulation by ambiguity: The spatial politics of a Paraguayan frontier economy
August 19Jennifer Tucker, University of California at Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning Since the 1980s, extra-legal networks of custom...