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 ...

We are a research network based at the universities of Sheffield, York and Leeds, examining the relationship between informality and citizenship, supported by studentships exploring a truly global set ...

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 urbanism, previously the domain of political economists and social scientists, has recently seen a revival in interest in both mainstream architecture as well as geography, urban studies and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...