ISBN:
9781409441328
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 201 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Urban informalities
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Stadt
;
Soziologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Sociology, Urban
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift 2009
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift 2009
;
Urbanität
;
Governance
Abstract:
This book produced by a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. It critically interrogates both the ways in which 'informal' and 'formal' are put to work in the governing and politicisation of cities, and their conceptual strengths and weaknesses
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Informal-formal Divide in Context; 1 Juggling with Formality and Informality in Housing: Some Lessons from the New South Africa; 2 Urban Informality Reconsidered in a Neoliberal Context; 3 'Informal Moral Economies' and Urban Governance in India; 5 Informality as a Strategy: Street Traders in Hanoi Facing Constant Insecurity; 6 Informality as Borrowed Security: Contested Food Markets in Dhaka, Bangladesh; 7 Hip-hop and Sociality in a Brazilian Favela; 8 The Mode of Informal Urbanisation; 9 Conceptualising Informality
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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