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Drawing of a group of people standing and watching one person fix a sign on a building.
Socio-technical practices for just cities: E&U special issue celebration
… & Urbanization exploring socio-technical practice: a form of urban practice in which technical knowledge from architecture, planning … relationship between reflection and action in socially transformative urban practice. The event will showcase key insights from the issue, … (South Africa) Aravind Unni, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India) The event was designed for urban researchers, practitioners, …
Event, 23 February 2026
A woman in a yellow sari and wearing a facemask is standing in a field of crops. She is putting the plants into a bag tied around her waist.
Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India
… Peri-urban agriculture is located on the fringes of a town or city. As cities … and people from rural areas move to cities, the frontiers between urban, peri-urban and rural activities blur and merge.  For labourers … Verma and Sampurna Kundu of the Urban Health Resource Centre , India This research was commissioned by the National Institute for …
Article, 06 June 2022
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Climate change, health and informal workers – highlighting urban challenges and responses from India and Zimbabwe
… most livelihoods as well as key goods and services that enable these urban areas to function and to thrive. Despite their importance, very … and will affect the livelihoods, health and wellbeing of low-income urban informal workers. Still fewer efforts have explored … on Wednesday, 8 June included presentations from research teams in India and Zimbabwe, as well as commentary and analysis from global …
Event, 08 June 2022
Aerial view of the Kibera neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya.
If cities could speak: vulnerability, climate and health in the city
… and climate change together, but also overcome deeply entrenched urban inequalities. This project, funded by Wellcome Trust under its … contextualise the impacts of climate change on health in vulnerable urban settlements in India, Kenya, South Africa and Sierra Leone   Co-produce stories of … Urban …
Project, 07 October 2025
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India’s peri-urban frontier: rural-urban transformations and food security
… In India, peri-urban areas are too often neglected. Many people live in … and face increasing marginalisation and food insecurity. Yet peri-urban agriculture could be a major contributor to poverty alleviation … security. This working paper examines rural-urban transformations in India in relation to changes in food production, access, consumption, …
Publication, 01 April 2017
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Rethinking post-disaster relocation in urban India
… After natural disasters, governments often relocate vulnerable urban communities in the name of humanitarian relief. But urban communities rarely welcome such relocation, since it frequently … flood risk across the urban area, creating new risks. Instead, India should develop participatory and risk-reducing plans and policies …
Publication, 01 August 2017
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Tackling poverty and food security: lessons from India’s peri-urban frontier
… In India, peri-urban areas are too often neglected. They are fraught with … growth, poor infrastructure and environmental degradation. Many peri-urban inhabitants live in poverty and face increasing marginalisation … policies and programmes which could support peri-urban agriculture in India. It examines rural-urban transformations in relation to changes in …
Publication, 01 April 2017
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Opportunities to address the emergent disaster risk landscape in urban India
… zero of Cyclone Hudhud in October 2014, was the first city in the India Meteorological Department’s history to be hit by a cyclone.2 Such … This emergent disaster risk landscape in India poses a threat to urban development investments and gains. However, ongoing post-disaster … climate in India, provide a policy window to further strengthen an urban disaster risk governance framework to facilitate and improve urban …
Publication, 01 January 2015
A group of people gather around a man seated with a laptop computer and look and point at the screen
Data tales – part three: the technological prowess of the urban poor
… draw on real life examples from my work with Jaga Mission in Odisha (India). They show how technology – in its truest sense – is often … the local knowledge and practical skills used in everyday life by the urban poor. Unless we are like the wanderlust-stricken anthropologist … with what is normally described as local knowledge of the urban poor. Sure, we love to involve community members in qualitative …
Insight, 07 November 2022
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Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale
… with analyses of policies relating to climate-impacted dwellers in urban Bangladesh, to state-provided housing in South Africa and to the … – but that when co-produced with the aim of fulfilling the rights of urban residents, can also construct and reproduce pathways to urban … at community toilet provision in unserved informal settlements in India, draws attention to a mismatch between the perceptions of state …
Publication, 30 April 2023