The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development
Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and …
Tag: informality
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 …
Cities to Be Tamed?
Chiodelli F., De Carli B., Falletti M., Scavuzzo L., Eds. (2014) Cities to Be Tamed? Spatial Investigations Across the Urban South, …
International Housing Policy for the Urban Poor
This paper conducts a review of the main housing policies for informal settlements and the poor in the so-called Global …
The complex nexus between informality and the law
This article discusses the relations between unauthorised settlements and regulation in the Global South. It starts from the concept of …
Planning illegality in East Jerusalem
This paper investigates the role of Israeli residential policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict over East Jerusalem. The focus is specifically …