Related to the academic topic on innovation and development of information-communication industries,a dualist distinction between formal and informal economy has drawn a lot of research interests in the academy circle...
How has the informality of urban slums exposed a gap in policy formulation and research questions in the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic?This paper seeks to identify the appropriate questions an...
funded by the National Natural Science Fund of China(No.51578304);PhD Dissertation Scholarship of Urban Development and Land Policy Research Center,Peking University–Lincoln Institute of Land Policy(No.DS03-20180901-GXY);the National Social Science Fund of China(No.16CRK020);the Humanity and Social Science Research Youth Foundation of China’s Ministry of Education(No.15YJCZH016);the Social Science Foundation of Beijing,China(No.15SHC043);the Horizon 2020 Research&Innovation Program(No.770141)
The study on informality has experienced a shift from describing the spatial characteristics toward exploring the connotation of urban governance in recent years. This paper takes urban villages in Shenzhen, a typical...
This paper presents a practice-based research to achieve a deeper understanding of the spatial issues related to backpacker tourism, a booming industry in Budapest. The authors designed six backpacker hostels between ...
The authors' purpose is to illustrate that counter cultures follow changes in democracy. While allowing more political freedom for individuals, such freedom is expressed by overtaking those rules, taboos, and mores t...
the Chinese Education Ministry Key Research Program(No.14JJD810017);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2015M581553)
The dispute settlement mechanism(DSM) has long been the focus of attention because of its significant role in the institutional construction of China's free trade agreements(FTAs). Thus, this paper is to make an analy...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent a significant portion of gross domestic product (GDP) and are recognized as pillars of the economy in Albania. They are the first generators of employment and have a p...
Admittedly, the stratospheric rise of Informal African Immigrant Traders (IAIT) in the Johannesburg inner city within a climate of discrimination, harassment, hostility, and xenophobia has engendered survival strate...
Toadies cities are accumulating the global population in their territories, occurring formally and informally. The increase of urban informality is the most significant trend shaping the 21st century world. Furthermor...