Do urban populations benefit from urban bias?
Conventional wisdom suggests that most poverty is in rural areas. But as there is so little research, how can we know if this is true? Read the blog by David Satterthwaite.
Introduction to housing justice
IIED’s programme of work on housing builds partnerships and research that informs community-led and resilient housing responses in cities of the global South. A new collection about IIED's work in this area has been released.
UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Internal Displacement
The UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Internal Displacement recently released its final report, which highlighted the importance of the urban dimension of internal displacement. Lucy Earle published a related policy briefing to coincide with the report’s release, making the case for “treating long-term urban IDPs as city residents”.
Street vendors and garbage pickers need protection from climate extremes
Two billion people globally do informal work that exposes them to unsafe conditions like extreme heat, air pollution and flooding. Read the blog by Alice Sverdlik in Climate Home News.
‘Cities for Human Development: a capability approach to city-making’
Drawing on the work of Amartya Sen and others from the field of human development and capability debate, Cities for Human Development, a new book by Alexandre Apsan Frediani, aims to approach city-making from the lens of the capability approach.
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