Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire
This is a comment on a recently published paper on Planning Theory, entitled “Asking ‘Third World questions’ of First World informality”
Tag: Global South
Informal Housing of the Rich
This article investigates illegal housing for upper-income residents in the protected forest area of the eastern hills of Bogotá
Governare l’ingovernabile. Politiche degli slum nel XXI secolo
La crescita degli insediamenti informali chiamati comunemente slum è stata irresistibile negli ultimi decenni, fino a costituire una delle caratteristiche salienti delle grandi metropoli contemporanee. Proliferano ovunque, e non solo nei paesi arretrati, periferie misere e autocostruite che circondano le grandi agglomerazioni urbane del pianeta. Ma come è possibile gestire, amministrare, eventualmente …
Formal Institutions and the Production of Informal Urban Spaces
The paper provides an introductory theoretical framework for this special issue. Firstly, the main weaknesses of the traditional ‘geography of informality’ are analyzed, including its tendency to focus on urban poverty in the ‘Global South’, to privilege its economic causes, and to treat the phenomenon in terms of clear-cut dichotomies. …
International Housing Policy for the Urban Poor and the Informal City in the Global South
This paper conducts a review of the main housing policies for informal settlements and the poor in the so-called Global South promoted by the main international agencies
The complex nexus between informality and the law
Chiodelli F., Moroni S. (2014), “The complex nexus between informality and the law: Reconsidering unauthorised settlements in light of the concept of nomotropism”, Geoforum 51: 161-169
Cities to Be Tamed? Spatial Investigations Across the Urban South
Chiodelli F., De Carli B., Falletti M., Scavuzzo L., Eds. (2014) Cities to Be Tamed? Spatial Investigations Across the Urban South, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK