Informal settlements are a major urban residential form globally yet they are marginalized in
planning and policymaking. As part of wider interest in geospatial technologies to inform …

Informality has been a predominant source of affordable housing for the urban poor in the
Global South. Despite many efforts to eliminate and/or improve informal settlements, these …

Scholarship on urban Latin America is prolific and multifaceted. The region not only is the
most urbanised in the world but also the most unequal. This distinctive feature makes it rich …

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, accommodates 18 million people and is one of the
largest megacities in the world. A large share of its population is poor and lives in informal …

While studies of property rights have long gone beyond the legal-illegal dichotomy, how to
quantify the varying degree of property rights remains a challenging task. Focusing on a …

The transnational (re) making of contemporary urban pacification practices, discourses, and
technologies between Brazil and Israel is underpinned by coercive entanglements. The …

Improving the lives of households in informal settlements is a major development challenge.
Though ownership is the predominant housing tenure arrangement pursued in national and …

ABSTRACT Putting Milton Santos' theorisations in conversation with post-colonial
conceptualization of global urbanism, the paper discusses the legacy of mega-events …

Given that on-site upgrading is the “state-of-the-art” policy for squatter settlements and given
that Favela Bairro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is one of the most celebrated of these upgrading …

This article discusses the effects of a celebrated resettlement of a flood-prone informal
settlement in Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic. Drawing on data …