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Neglected Second and Third Generation Challenges of Urban Sanitation: A Review of the Marginality and Exclusion Dimensions of Safely Managed Sanitation

Sanitation is fundamental for health and wellbeing yet cities, especially in the global South, face challenges in providing safely...

Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration: Concepts and Assumptions

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This working paper is the product of the Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration. It is designed to bring together our...

Arts Interventions for Sustainable Sanitation and Resource Recovery (accessible version)

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Many countries in the global South declare regions to be open defecation free, but they must still address significant sanitation, wastewater, and faecal sludge management challenges. Climate uncertainty, water shortages, and weak infrastructure mean that ‘flush and forget’ systems are not always possible or desirable.

Arts Interventions for Sustainable Sanitation and Resource Recovery

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This briefing describes how art interventions can help people reimagine alternative sanitation futures. Drawing on research in Nepal, it describes how activities such as dance workshops, humanure planting, song competitions, and radio jingles can generate new knowledge about sanitation challenges and faecal sludge re-use, showing that ‘brown’ can be ‘gold’!

Public Spaces, Placemaking and Integration of Migrants in Finland (accessible version)

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Placemaking and urban public spaces are important but often neglected factors in the integration and wellbeing of forcibly displaced people and other migrants. Migrants tend to have limited access and ability to use public spaces and are under-represented in urban planning processes.

Co-Designing Urban Play Spaces to Improve Migrant Children’s Wellbeing (accessible version)

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Between 2001 and 2011, India’s urban population increased from almost 28 per cent to just over 31 per cent. Almost 139 million people migrated to cities (mainly Delhi and Mumbai), often bringing their children with them.

Newcomer Wellbeing and Placemaking in Southeast England (accessible version)

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This briefing explores how refugees and asylum seekers experience wellbeing and placemaking in urban contexts, through interviews with people working for non-governmental and community organisations in southeast England.

The Role of Urban Public Spaces in Managing Displacement in Norway (accessible version)

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Refugees, temporarily displaced people, and migrants who arrive in Norwegian cities would benefit from equitable access to urban public spaces.