106-110 of 129 matching articles 5 20 100 All Bangkok's home-based workers find strength in numbers Carlin Carr • 1 December 2016 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. India's Kumbh Mela festival: the world's largest pop-up city Kristen Teutonico • 11 March 2013 As the Kumbh Mela festival closes in Allahabad, Kristen Teutonico wonders why the lessons of this pop-up city aren't being applied to India's permanent mega-cities. From pancakes to clusters: why Shanghai needs fiscal decentralisation to achieve its sustainability plans Sebastian Schulz • 11 December 2012 Sebastian Schulz describes how decentralisation without fiscal powers is encouraging districts to undermine the master plan and overdevelop their territories. Neither seen nor heard: South Asia's millions of home-based workers Shalini Sinha • 4 December 2012 Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions yet remain invisible in urban planning. Shalini Sinha argues that housing and zoning must be reconceived with a focus on home as workplace. Not to be taken for granted: what informal waste pickers offer the urban economy Sonia Dias • 27 November 2012 Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental benefits of including informal waste pickers in planning. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
