Ryan Devlin
Ryan Thomas Devlin is an adjunct professor of public administration and urban policy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The New School, both in New York City. His research centres mainly on urban informality in the US. He has undertaken an in-depth study of street vending and conflicts over public space in New York. His current project focuses on illegal apartments and informal housing arrangements in the New York metropolitan area.
Working the streets of New York

Working the streets of New York

by | Oct 12, 2017

African traders bring generations of élan and experience to a precarious business in the Big Apple African cities are often thought of as embodying an urbanism of fluidity and instability—cities of perpetually unfinished becoming, full of risk and  opportunity. “The...

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Ryan Devlin
Ryan Thomas Devlin is an adjunct professor of public administration and urban policy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The New School, both in New York City. His research centres mainly on urban informality in the US. He has undertaken an in-depth study of street vending and conflicts over public space in New York. His current project focuses on illegal apartments and informal housing arrangements in the New York metropolitan area.
Working the streets of New York

Working the streets of New York

by | Oct 12, 2017 |

African traders bring generations of élan and experience to a precarious business in the Big Apple African cities are often thought of as embodying an urbanism of fluidity and instability—cities of perpetually unfinished becoming, full of risk and  opportunity. “The...