Mapping Legalities : Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work / Thomas Coggin and Roopa Madhav.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coggin, Thomas, editor.

Madhav, Roopa, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in urbanism and the city

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public spaces--Law and legislation.

Public spaces.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Foreword

A call to reimagine urban legal governance

References

List of contributors

Acknowledgement

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Background to the book project

Situating the book within the urban law and informal workers discourse

Chapter overview

Where to from here?

Urban public space, informal workers and law

Urban commons, property rights and informal workers

Municipal regulations, procedural justice and public space

Concluding thoughts

Bibliography

Chapter 1: Urban regulation for self-employed informal workers

Regulation and decent work in the informal economy: the urban gap

Data and methods

Regulation and income security across cities and workers

Unpacking the relationship: qualitative evidence from two cities

Street vendors: navigating bylaws and informal governance

Waste pickers: workers at the margins of municipal bylaws

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

Chapter 2: Disambiguating legalities: Street vending, law, and boundary work in Mexico City

Visualising legal heterogeneity

Permitting ambiguous legality

Disambiguation

Contested legitimacy

Chapter 3: Power dynamics and the regulation of street vending in the urban space: The law on the books and the law on the ground in Accra and Dakar

Methodology

The law on the books and the law on the ground in Accra and Dakar

Law on the books in Accra and Dakar

The law on the ground in Accra and Dakar

Contested public space: A diagnosis

From global to local - ILO R204 on the transition from the informal to the formal economy

Conclusions and recommendations.

Notes

Chapter 4: Differential effects of vending formalisation in New York City, USA

Formalising informal economies - A review of the literature

Intro 1116: Background and context

The effects of Intro 1116 on the variegated landscape of vending in New York

Case study: Informal cut-fruit vendors

Chapter 5: Local government regulations and the dispossession of urban informal vendors in Delhi, India

Background

Case study: Daryaganj Sunday book bazaar

Case study: The Prabhu Market

Local government regulations and analysis of the implementation of the Street Vendors Act

Creating effective TVCs

Number of vendors in a zone and exclusions in survey

Local government regulations and their impacts

Chapter 6: Impact of new planning policies on sustenance and inclusivity of street trading in Dhaka: A critical review of Detailed Area Plan 2016-2035

The antecedent of DAP: Dhaka Structure Plan 2016-2035

Detailed Area Plan 2016-2035

Street traders' lived experiences in the backdrop of laws and policies

Through everyday payment to shadow agents of the state

Through patronisation of and negotiation with the agencies of state under the legal framework

Dhaka Metropolitan Police and Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance, 1976

Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and Local Government (City Corporation) laws, 2009

Hawkers' associations/co-operatives

An ecosystem of benefit and conflict between the actors of state and street traders centring space and location of trade

Feasibility of hawker management directives within the ground reality

Implication of ground reality for formalisation directive proposed in Detailed Area Plan 2016-2035.

Implication of ground reality for spatial allotment proposed in Detailed Area Plan 2016-2035

A way forward for realistic implementation of DAP 2016-2035

Chapter 7: Advocating for a livelihood-centric master plan: Learnings from Delhi

Spatiality of informal work in Delhi

Masterplan can be a tool of inclusion

Draft Master Plan of Delhi 2041: Identifying the gaps

An advocacy strategy for an inclusive masterplan

Concluding reflections

Chapter 8: Turbulent transformations and urban undesirables: Revanchist urban transition and street-based sex work in Bangalore

Sex work and city spaces

Method

The socio-spatial cartography of sex work in Bangalore

Upheaval, betrayal, and dispossession

The police, the law, and responses

Sex workers' right to their city

Chapter 9: Overlooked mobility: Domestic workers commuting in Bogotá, Medellín, and São Paulo

Commuting patterns and financial accessibility for the urban poor

Vulnerability theory, the right to the city and the right to mobility

Material and methods

Discussion: Transportation infrastructure and costs from a Right to the City framework

Transportation infrastructure planning: Domestic workers remain vulnerable

Financial accessibility legal measures

Conclusions

Chapter 10: New perspectives on the work of waste pickers: The construction of a 'recycling node' in Mercedes, Argentina

Footprints on the road: Waste pickers search for recognition

Informality and urban space

The cooperative La Libertad

'We work together': Towards the formalisation of waste pickers in Argentina

'They want to kick us out of the city': Conflicts and tensions in the formalisation process

Bibliography.

Chapter 11: Pursuing aspirations for decent sanitation work: How informal workers navigate the universe of rules that shape sanitation practices in urban Africa

Contextual and methodological considerations

Sanitation work and workers' aspirations for decent work

The 'universe' of sanitation rules affecting aspirations

Navigating the universe of sanitation rules

The un-making and re-making of decent and fair work

Chapter 12: Urban informal workers' COVID-19 compliance: Evidence on social capital and enforcement politics from Indonesia

Social capital, enforcement politics, and urban governance in a time of COVID-19

Setting, data, and experimental design

Background on Indonesia's informal workers, urban civil society, and COVID-19 policies

Sampling and data

Mobile survey of Indonesian urban informal workers

Experimental design

Survey experiment on endorsement versus enforcement messages

Results

Survey experiment: Main results

Survey experiment: Heterogeneous effects

Discussion

Occupational sorting, selection, and social associations based on weak ties

Information-seeking behaviour

Waning control by the state over urban civil society

Rival explanations: Social control and economic vulnerability

Appendix

Chapter 13: Informal work and the social function of the city: A framework for legal reform in the urban and spatial environment

The social function of property

The social function of the city

Building up the normative content of the social function of the city

The urban environment as a usufruct

The urban environment as a process of commoning

Translating the social function of the city into claims and correlatives

Notes:

Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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1040095615

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40032406827

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