This ought to be good. What if the “messy,” unplanned parts of cities — the slums, the informal markets, the self-built homes — are not failures, but the city’s own rough draft?

Echanove and Srivastava argue that urbanism should start with the people who shape cities every day, not just the officials who plan them from above.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/730-the-homegrown-city

#cityplanning #informality #urbanism #urbanplanner #urbanplanning #inclusiveplanning #SDG11 #TrufiAssociation

This year’s conference revealed both how far the solidarity economy has come—and how far it has to go.
#solidarityeconomy
#inequality #decolonization #informality

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/whose-solidarity-race-colonialism-economy-and-the-global-south/

Labor-atories of Digital EconomiesLatin America as a Site of Struggles and Experimentation

Rafael Grohmann

"This article argues that digital labor developments and struggles are laboratories of digital economies, with a special focus on Latin America. This means that, on the one hand, capital is experimenting with and updating forms of control and exploitation through the long trajectory of informality and de-pendency and, on the other hand, workers are trying and experimenting with forms of organizing and collectivities, also updating Latin America’s rich histories of organizing, solidarity economies, and community technologies. The emphasis on “labor” implies that these laboratories are products of class struggles and capital – labor relationships. The paper unpacks the argument with four short insights from ongoing research, addressing 1) Latin America as more than a research site, 2) the updating of informality in the Latin American artificial intelligence context, 3) the global implications of data work, artifi-cial intelligence value chains, and the cultural sector, and 4) digital solidarity economies as a Latin American response to the current digital labor scenario, including digital sovereignty and autonomy."

https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/article/view/5_1_6/5_1_6

#LatinAmerica #DigitalEconomy #DigitalLabor #AI #Informality #Digital Sovereignty

Fighting For Ourselves: Informal Organization & The Insurrectionary Project

https://kolektiva.media/w/nBbuAjbEggP7LMco5c8YuW

OnlineFirst - "Welfare ruination, debris and Europeans’ make-shift practices: A research agenda" by Marguerite van den Berg:

#Europe #postwelfarestates #institutionalviolence #imperialformations #informality #improvisation #makeshift

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X241278168

OnlineFirst - "Jakarta: Taking the field seriously" by Emma Colven, Samuel Nowak, Dimitar Anguelov, Dian Irawaty, Eric Sheppard, and Helga Leitner:

#informality #Southernurbantheory #displacement #dispossession

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X241233907

A quotation from Martin, Judith:

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Teacup formality is a part of etiquette, but an infinitesimal part. How about fast-food informality? That is as much a part of etiquette as the teacup. It is all of our behavior and not simply the formal occasion behavior. And, in fact, the more informal the circumstances, usually the more you need etiquette.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martin-judith/60930/

#quote #quotes #quotation #behavior #etiquette #formality #informality

New route test in #Kampala is almost ready to go!

Asking - how does route expansion support equitable #accessibility? #Decarbonization? Safety? How do capital constraints and coordination failures affect private operators ability to fulfill varied #mobility needs?

#urbanplanning #transportation #informality #research