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On handling urban informality in southern Africa [PDF]

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 2013
In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
AAPS, Abdoul M., Amin A., Amin Y. Kamete, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Bauman Z., Bayat A., Beall J., Berman M., Blunch N.‐H., Bromley R., Bromley R., Butcher C., Caldeira T. P. R., Campbell E. K., Castells M., CHRA, CITY of HARARE, CITY of HARARE, Cresswell T., de soto H., Foucault M., Friedman E., García canclini N., Ghertner D. A., Gospodini A., Gueye C., Hansen K. T., Hart K., Holston J., ILO, Jimu I. M., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kayuni H. M., King K., Legg S., Lindell I., Lindell I., Llobera J. R., Maloney W. F., Marcuse H., Meagher K., Misztal B. A., Misztal B. A., Mooya M. M., Moser C. O. N., MPSLSW, MPSLSW, Mubvami T., Odendaal N., Popke E. J., Prakash G., Rakodi C., Rakodi C., Robins S., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Rupiya M., Samers M., Sandercock L., SDI, SDI, Simone A., Simone A., Simone A., Stern R. E., Stren R. E., Swilling M., Thomas J., Tibaijuka A. K., Tipple A. G., Tokman V. E., UN‐HABITAT, UN‐HABITAT, Watson V., Watson V., Wekwete K. H., Yiftachel O.   +83 more
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Temporary appropriation and urban informality: Exploring the subtle distinction

Cities, 2020
This paper seeks to explore the definitions and uses of both urban informality, and temporary appropriation in a city/urban setting. Temporary appropriation is usually overlooked and misinterpreted as a form of informal practice.
J. A. Lara-Hernandez, Claire M. Coulter, A. Melis   +2 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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The Political Potential of Urban Informality in the Global North: A Rancièrian Perspective

Journal of Developing Societies, 2022
In recent years, a growing number of scholars have highlighted the presence of urban informality in the Global North. Although we applaud this development, we deplore that this body of literature is characterized by analytical ambiguity and fragmented ...
Niek van de Pas, David de Kort, M. Koster, T. Meijl   +3 more
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Haphazard urbanisation: Urban informality, politics and power in Egypt

Urban studies, 2021
The Egyptian military regime of Abd al-Fattah el-Sisi has announced as part of its Vision 2030 its intention to eliminate informal urban areas. The regime has identified these areas – commonly known by the Arabic term ‘ashwa’iyyat (which means haphazard)
D. Sharp
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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, Jacinta Dias, Alefe Abraão da Silva dos Santos   +2 more
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Urban vulnerability in informal settlements of Ushuaia. An analytical-comparative approach from different actors´ perspectives

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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Transgressive urbanism : borderlands and urban informality of american cities along the panamerican highway [PDF]

, 2013
This study explores the ways in which political boundaries can be trespassed in order to develop subaltern forms of urbanism and edge conditions, mainly to the comparative study of border cities in the Americas, predominantly ruled by informal economies,
Suau, Cristian
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