How climate change and unplanned urban sprawl bring more landslides

U Ozturk, E Bozzolan, EA Holcombe, R Shukla… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
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A review of experimental informal urbanism initiatives and their implications for sub-Saharan Africa's sustainable cities' agenda

I Quaye, O Amponsah, GA Azunre, SA Takyi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A dominant narrative in conventional literature is that informality is a barrier against
sustainable city development. However, in recent times, some scholars argue that informal …

The shadow economy: A bibliometric analysis

V Terziev - Business Ethics and Leadership, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
The article deals with the analysis of the areas of research related to the shadow economy.
The results of analyses show that financial market and financial intermediates become an …

Informality-sustainable city nexus: The place of informality in advancing sustainable Ghanaian cities

GA Azunre, O Amponsah, SA Takyi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Economic and spatial informality dominates the cityscape of countries in the Global South.
From the perspective of urban practitioners and other stakeholders, there are two main …

The COVID-19 pandemic and the livelihood of a vulnerable population: Evidence from women street vendors in urban Vietnam

PT Thanh, PB Duong - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous detrimental impacts on a global scale.
Street vendors are one of the most heavily affected groups since they lack the skills and …

Urbanization and floods in sub-saharan africa: Spatiotemporal study and analysis of vulnerability factors—case of antananarivo agglomeration (Madagascar)

FN Ramiaramanana, J Teller - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Flooding is currently one of the major threats to cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The
demographic change caused by the high rate of natural increase, combined with the …

The structure of informality: The Zambian copperbelt and the informal/formal dialectic

BM Finn - Dialogues in Human Geography, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The study of urban informality has exploded since Keith Hart theorized the term the 'informal
sector.'This explosion has coincided with a growing interest among urban scholars who train …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity, justice and slum upgrading: An intersectional approach to urban development

A Rigon - Habitat International, 2022 - Elsevier
Slum upgrading interventions often assume that all residents have similar aspirations and
needs. However, these neighbourhoods rank among the most unequal settlements, and …

[HTML][HTML] Contesting the growing city? Forms of urban growth and consequences for communal violence

E Elfversson, K Höglund, AM Sellström, C Pellerin - Political Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
How does rapid urban growth affect risks of communal violence in cities? In rapidly growing
cities, poor planning and weak institutions combined with an unregulated influx of migrants …

The everyday counter-city: Communities creating alternatives through reciprocal care, prefigurative action and subaltern urbanism

A Dulhunty - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Cities are the physical embodiment of power, capital and state control. Yet urban centres are
heterogeneous and multiple counter-cities are created within the bounds of the city …