This paper synthesizes recent research and evidence on urban policies and local
government practices as they relate to street vending, one of the most visible occupations in …

Abstract What can the Participatory Budget (PB) teach us about slum upgrading in the cities
of the Global South? This article describes the process of slum upgrading via PB in Porto …

Grassroots refugee community organizations (RCOs)—run by and for resettled refugees—
are often small, informal, and financially unstable, and thus commonly forgotten in urban …

Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil's participatory management, less academic
attention focuses on Brazil's public policy councils (conselhos gestores de políticas …

What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass
urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs: City-Making and …

Brazil is well-known for participatory planning praxis anchored on the right to the city and
federal legislation. Yet little is known about how the right to participation materializes …

This article interrogates the spatial, economic, and cultural underpinnings of traditional
retailscapes in sub-Saharan Africa to understand how they intersect with contemporary …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore elites' prevalence in the process of
participatory budgeting (PB) in a Ukrainian municipality. Design/methodology/approach The …

Despite the broad celebration of Brazil's urban reform movement, recent events in Brazil
have called attention to a paradox focused on the disappointing results of this movement to …

The appeals of citizenship: a performative approach to discourse, subjectivity, and gender--"
We are gaúchos, we are gaúchas": incitements to gendered and regional subjectivity in the …