In the third of a series of photo essays from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, Carlin Carr explores how workers in Bangkok’s informal economy came together in a collective movement to advocate for their labour rights.
Abidemi Coker discusses how NGOs in Manila are mobilizing poor urban residents to work together in community associations so they can access land and housing.
Carlin Carr introduces members of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in Ahmedabad. The organisation has been supporting informal workers to improve their working conditions.
Is public consultation a thing of the past? Alyssa Campbell takes us inside the City Innovation Game, a planning experiment in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam, that lets stakeholders create development scenarios interactively and in real time.
Hallam Goad explains how online connectivity is making Cambodia's growing cities the focus of the next election.
The famed warehouse site in Queens, destroyed definitively last year, highlighted precisely how we engage democratically in the creation of public space, especially those that suggest alternative ways of forming a "public".
Natalia Gaerlan visits a poor community in northern-central Thailand that has taught itself resilience in the face of recurring flooding.
Bronwyn Kotzen is a qualified architect, and urban researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), a Wits University affiliate.
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