Beyond a state-centric approach to urban informality: Interactions between Delhi's middle class and the informal service sector. [PDF]
Curr Sociol, 2017 Since the ‘discovery’ of the informality in the early 1970s, its conceptualization has been significantly expanded beyond economic activity to include land-use and service provision. While informality often refers to that which is beyond the reach of the
Schindler S.
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Debates Paper: COVID-19 and urban informality: Exploring the implications of the pandemic for the politics of planning and inequality. [PDF]
Urban Stud, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a major contradiction in contemporary urban planning. This is the relationship between the entrepreneurial modes of urban politics that shape contemporary planning practice and the interrelated dynamics of economic ...
Shatkin G +2 more
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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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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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Urban informality as a signifier: Performing urban reordering in suburban Rio de Janeiro. [PDF]
Int Sociol, 2017 Urban informality is typically ascribed to the urban poor in cities of the Global South. Drawing on Judith Butler’s concept of performativity and taking the case of Rio de Janeiro in the context of the 2016 Olympic Games, this article conceptualizes ...
Müller FI.
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Urban informality and confinement: toward a relational framework [PDF]
, 2017 In the 21st century, a growing number of people live ‘informal’ lives within fissures between legality and informality. Concomitantly, power relations are increasingly expressed through devices of confinement.
Agier M +26 more
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Governance Lessons from Urban Informality
Politics and Governance, 2018 We locate this issue’s papers on a spectrum of radicalism. We then examine that spectrum, and the governance mechanisms described, through the lens of a significant arena of urban counter-planning: the urban informal economy.
Hugo Sarmiento, Chris Tilly
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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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Vantage Journal of Thematic Analysis, 2023 In the vibrant tapestry of urban existence, the threads of informality and gender are interwoven, creating a narrative that remains largely unexplored.
A. Prasad
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