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Spatial integration of urban informality in Jakarta
ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2022 Urban informality is an everyday life phenomenon in Jakarta but has not been extensively discussed, especially in relation to spatial design practice. This is important because formality and informality are not entirely separate but rather interconnected
Ruth Dea Juwita +1 more
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Popular Urbanization: Conceptualizing Urbanization Processes Beyond Informality [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2020 AbstractThis article introduces the concept of popular urbanization to describe a specific urbanization process based on collective initiatives, self‐organization and the activities of inhabitants. We understand popular urbanization as an urban strategy through which an urban territory is produced, transformed and appropriated by the people.
Streule, Monika +3 more
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Urban Informality: Its Genesis and Future beyond Stigma and Abolition
AMJAU, African and Mediterranean Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2021 More than often informality as a concept connotes, in the common perception, with negative and unofficial ways through which formality is bypassed.
Safiya El Ghmari, Adil Zabadi
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Tent encampments in Toronto, Canada: Excavating Northern housing informalities
Radical Housing Journal, 2022 This paper examines the ambiguities of municipal state regulation in relation to the dwelling practices of Toronto’s unhoused population. This paper argues tent encampments are a persistent mode of urban informality in the global North, where ...
Allison Evans
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Urban informality in the Global North: a view from Los Angeles
Esboços, 2021 Urban informality is often discussed and debated by scholars of cities in the Global South, but the term is used with much less frequency in studies of US cities.
Nancy H. Kwak
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COVID-19 E INFORMALIDADE URBANA: diálogos entre Moçambique e Brasil
Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2021 The present article investigates the urban informality in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique and Brazil through a dialogue between the cities of Pemba (Cabo Delgado) and Duque de Caxias (Rio de Janeiro), which reveals the great ...
Gabriel Barros Bordignon +2 more
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Cuaderno Urbano, 2021 There are multiple disadvantages associated with urban informality that negatively affect inhabitants living conditions, leading to numerous vulnerability situations.
Lucía Fank
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Peri-Urban and Informality in Teluknaga, Tangerang Regency, Indonesia
CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development, 2021 ‘Desakota’ has been acknowledged as a unique landscape condition in South East Asia and Indonesia especially. In the middle of emerging economies and rapid urban development, ‘desakota’ as a peri-urban area suffers environmental degradation in the ...
Cipta Hadi, Evawani Ellisa
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Understanding sustainability transitions for urban informality in the Middle East
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2020 In 2018, UN-Habitat projected the total population of the planet was about 7.632 billion. Fifty-five percent were living in urban areas in which more than 20 percent were said to live in slum areas.
Ahmed M. Soliman
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Zimbabwe's unemployed youth: On waithustlinghood, struggle for survival and political activism
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 This paper examines the extent to which Zimbabwe's economic crisis compelled its citizens, particularly the youth, to engage in urban informality in order to make a living.
Inocent Moyo
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