Chengzhongcun are areas classified as rural villages which have been absorbed into China's growing cities, becoming thriving unregulated rental markets for rural migrants in the process. Beijing's new "sealed management" policy seeks forcefully to bring these areas back under state control, as Constance Bréhaut describes.
Despite contributing to key export sectors of India's economy, all levels of government seem to conspire to overlook the needs of Gurgaon's migrant workers.
Sebastian Schulz meets the informal street vendors and motorcycle taxi drivers of Shanghai and learns how they face daily discrimination at the hands of local police and the hukou household registration system.
It is common knowledge that sub-Saharan Africa is urbanising faster than anywhere else in the world ... but what if we're wrong?!
The community and government leaders committed to helping the residents of San Roque, and the unenviable challenges that confront them.
Cities for All draws together thinkers and innovators in a compilation of case studies, seeking to articulate experiences of South-South cooperation and enhance the links between different regions.
Eviction of poor residents has been less than expected in the run-up to the World Cup in South Africa, but the urban poor have nonetheless seen little economic benefit from the event.
Sebastian Schulz holds an MSc in Urban and Regional Planing Management and works as an urban planner and GIS analyst at BUP in Dusseldorf.
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