01446nam a2200193 4500 20260605130645.0 260605b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978-1138274730 LOC Eng HT361 .U7166 2012 1 307.76 1 Michael Waibel and Colin McFarlane Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal Ashgate, Farnham ; Burlington 2012 vii,201p. Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. This collection 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. It does so by focusing on a wide variety of topics, from specific forms of housing and labour often traditionally linked to the formal/informal divide, to urban political negotiations, cultural practices, and ways of being in the city. The book takes stock of and reflects on how contemporary urban informality/formality relations are being produced and are/might be understood, and puts forward an enlarged and comprehensive understanding of urban informality. ddc 1 AT 0 0 ddc 0 0 REF DSCA DSCA NEW 2026-05-29 7601.00 1 307.76-dc23 2444 2026-06-17 16:11:56 2026-06-13 1 2026-06-05 AT 6875 6875