Entries tagged ‘Informal City’
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Amid Choreographed Chaos, an Aeropostale Knock-Off is Born
Lima’s garment district is a densely packed barrage of sellers and laborers, churning out fashion for the masses in a process that’s part factory system, part alchemy.
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Nairobi’s Legal Drug Dealers Take a Hit
Times are tough for street-corner sellers of miraa, a plant-based stimulant and a critical source of income for many of the city’s informal workers.
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How a Savings Bank Became One Slum’s Line in the Sand
In Accra’s largest informal settlement, a credit association designed to upgrade the slum has become something much more: An impassioned weekly rally against government aggression.
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A Central Business District Trades its Corporations for Car Washers
As Nairobi’s big companies flee to the suburbs, street hawkers are flowing into the CBD. But can cheap jewelry and knock-off sunglasses sustain a downtown?
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Two Weeks in Photos
Our fortnightly roundup of photos from our blogs, from street vendors in Bangkok to moto-taxi drivers in Accra.
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Through Haute Couture and Handbags, a Manila Slum Gets a Makeover
Women in Tondo are creating clothes for the Philippines’ most famous designers, including a Project Runway judge, and showing how elevating your skills can uplift a neighborhood.
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“I Wish I Could Work on Those Dumpsites You See on TV”
Somjai Tuung-ngern, elderly and impoverished, works at the very bottom of Bangkok’s economy, with an informal job that is both her only chance of survival and a trap she can’t escape.
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A Traffic Solution Tries to Outrun Its Negative Image
In a city besieged by congestion, motorcycle taxis offer relief. But stereotypes about the young men who drive them keep the system in legal limbo.
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For Lima’s Bus Drivers, Congestion, Competition and Chaos
A population boom, a rising middle class, and a surge of cheap cars from Asia have turned Lima’s streets into a free-for-all — and bus driving into a combat sport.
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Lacking Schools, an Army of Women Teach Kibera’s Youngest
Every weekday morning, they rise before dawn to educate their neighborhood’s children, without pay, in a school they built themselves.
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