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The Topic: "Urban Informality & Why It Matters"

Fifty years of perception, policy, and reality 3 in Rio’s favelas by Janice E. Perlman

Janice Perlman hosted The “Insider-Out Panel” at the prestigious Latin American Studies Association Meetings in Vancouver

During the pandemic I have been working at three major projects. One of those projects was the Fulbright Research Project in Recife. 

During the pandemic I have been working at three major projects. One of those projects was a research/action project titled “The Power of the Peripheries: Favelas Combat Covid”.

Janice Perlman consulted on this Evaluation Study for the Inter-American Development Bank

Urban Informality Now, a Routledge publication, now available for pre-order

Today, one in every six people on Earth lives in an informal urban or squatter settlement. United Nations analysts estimate that number will rise to one in three by 2050. “Traditionally, policymakers see these people as a problem,” says Janice Perlman, PhD ’71. “I believe they’re part of the solution.”

Interconnected travel and the economies of scale cities offer ensures their appeal will not disappear after the pandemic