Urban informality encompasses a broad spectrum of unregulated or semi‐regulated practices, spaces and livelihoods that emerge alongside formally planned urban development. Far from being a marginal ...

We are excited to announce the launch of the Urban Informality Interest Group. This was inspired by our dialogue at the MIT World Real Estate Forum earlier this year and is a collective effort of MIT ...

With rapid economic development, Bangkok and BMR (Bangkok Mega Region) have become global hubs of production, finance and consumption, attracting the global investors and emerging upper class, but at ...

Urban informality in cities of the Global South encompasses a spectrum of unplanned housing, livelihood strategies and social networks that emerge in the absence or failure of formal regulatory ...

On Thursday, 12th September, urban researchers and practitioners convened at the University of Sheffield's ICOSS Building for the international workshop “New Frontiers of Urban Informality.” This ...

At the end of 2019, students from the University of Stuttgart, the Bandung Institute of Technology and the University of Melbourne participated in the Travelling Studio “The City In-Between, Designing ...

Informal settlements are growing fast in the region, and governments should aim for sustainable 'less-regulated' urbanisation. Population growth and urbanisation are transforming cities across ...

In the bustling and rapidly transforming urban landscapes of Ghana, especially in major city centres like Accra and Kumasi, the heartbeat of economic resilience can be found not just in skyscrapers or ...

This course is available on the MSc in City Design and Social Science, MSc in Inequalities and Social Science, MSc in Regional And Urban Planning Studies, MSc in Urban Policy (LSE and Sciences Po) and ...