Informal rental housing is reshaping neighbourhoods across the global South. Drawing on research from Cape Town, this featured IDPR article explores how ‘soft densification’ can be better managed to support sustainable urban development. Free to read for a limited time.
The necropolitics of informality: contested strategies of banishment, carceralisation and peripheralisation | IDPR 48.1-2 Featured Article
The editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in IDPR 48.1-2. ‘The necropolitics of informality: contested strategies of banishment, carceralisation and peripheralisation’ by Ilda Lindell and Zeferino Ugembe.
Reconfiguring citizenship in times of crisis: (post)pandemic experiences from the urban South — IDPR special issue
This double special issue of International Development Planning Review examines how the COVID-19 pandemic reconfigured state–citizen relations and reshaped patterns of urban citizenship across cities in the Global South.
Challenges and roles of grassroots community organisations in decentralised governance: a case study of Mali’s Office du Niger zone | IDPR 47.4 Featured Article
The editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in IDPR 47.4. ‘Challenges and roles of grassroots community organisations in decentralised governance: a case study of Mali’s Office du Niger zone’ by Hamadou Amadou Cissé Barry and Abhilash Babu.
Climate change and adaptation through the human security lens: Insights from the Mekong Delta | IDPR 47.3 Featured Article
The editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in IDPR 47.3. ‘Climate change and adaptation through the human security lens: insights from the Mekong Delta’ by Phuong-Dung Le, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Läderach, Hoang Long and Han Van Dijk.
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