Galinoma,

interesting topic, a few studies were made, especially from the EU and not from development countries. Just have a look at e.g.

Mayer, Heike; Baumgartner, Daniel (2014):

The Role of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Peripheral Regions.

In: disP - The Planning Review 50 (1), S. 16–23. DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2014.926720.

But during my resarch i saw a few publications, just have a look with some key words in EBSCO and so an.

Best wishes

Mike

I don't know; but if you go to Google Scholar and write:

impact of urban planning on small business development

you may find some scholar papers about...

A big question with multifarious elements to it.  Issues of tenure, congestion, health and safety and impediments to growth are components to your case example and a method for drawing these in is needed.  Before suggesting an approach I wish to quickly recount two examples from my own observations I India.  First, new highways are constructed and farmers quickly move to use the outside lane for drying rice or other grain; a four lane road soon becomes two lanes. Second, a hawker establishes a food stall on the side of the highway and soon there is a cluster of stalls; trucks and other vehicles stop and the expressway is suddenly a no-way.  The time and fuel saving components of the benefit cost analysis are no longer valid.

My approach to the issue is to think of the problem in terms of formal and informal sectors of the economy.  The lack of incentive to be part of the formal sector encourages informality which has direct, indirect and externality costs.  Town planning and land tenure are elements of the formal sector components only when the regulatory components are both enforceable and enforced.   This gives us a lens to model the costs of informality clustering such as your case issue.

There is no value judgement involved concerning the rights of poor to try and gain a living.  What is important is the balance of formal and informal to gain maximum advantage for the citizens.  With development the formal sector waxes and the informal sector wanes.

Dear Galinoma,

I recommend this book:

Planning local economic development: Theory and practice

by NG Leigh, EJ Blakely, 2013

http://pdf11.ozzlvl.com/b74i_planning-local-economic-development-theory-and-practice.pdf

Regards,

Vanessa

Hello Galinoma Lubawa,

Since the profusion of informal businesses in most African cities in the post-SAP (Structural Adjustment Programme) era, they have remained at loggerheads with urban planning. You may benefit from the following works on the subject in Africa and Asia:

AFRICA

Harper M 1996. Urban planning and the informal sector. Regional Development Dialogue 17(1): 97-112.

Muraya PWK 2006. Urban Planning and Small-scale Enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya. Habitat International 30: 127-143.

Onyebueke VU 2001. Denied Reality, Retarded Perception or Inaction? Cities 18(6): 419-433.

Watson V 2009. The planned city sweeps the poor away. . .’ Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation. Progress in Planning 72:151-193.

Onyebueke, VU & Anierobi, C. 2014. Relocation and Defiance in the Dhamidja-Azikiwe Informal Shopping Belt in Enugu, Nigeria: Actions Speak Louder than Words. In Duminy J., Andreasen J., Lerise F., Odendaal N., & Watson, V., (eds) Planning and Case Study Method in Africa: The Planner in Dirty Shoes. Palgrave Macmillan: London.

ASIA

Amin ATM 1992. Urban planning in metropolitan areas of Asia: The challenge of accommodating the informal sector.

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Health 23: 19-129.

Amin ATM 2000. The compulsion of accommodating the informal sector in the Asian metropolis and changes necessary in the urban planning paradigms. In Yeh AG & Ng MK (eds) Planning for a better Urban Living environment in Asia, 23-53. Sydney: Ashgate.

Thanks Mr  Victor Udemezue Onyebueke