A fine-grained understanding of informality
This article focuses on the role of subjective meanings in the production of informal housing. It argues that, although individual …
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Placing the law
Tthe paper aims to contribute to the theoretical investigation of the nexus between law and space in the field of …
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire
This is a comment on the following paper: Devlin, R. T. (2018). Asking ‘Third World questions’ of First World informality: …
Informal Housing of the Rich
While research has put the spotlight on analysing informality of the urban poor in the global South, informal housing practices …
The production of informal space
The paper analyses the plurality of urban informal practices that characterize contemporary Italy in the sphere of housing, focusing on …
Juggling the formal and the informal
This paper focuses on the informal occupation of public housing in Naples (Italy), analysing a specific mechanism, the fraudulent takeover, …
Inverse Planning in the Cracks of Formal Land Use Regulation
This paper focuses on a case of ‘non-public planning’ in an informal neighbourhood of Maputo, Mozambique. Here, several residents undertook …
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North
This article deals with housing illegality/informality in Italy, where it represents an established aspect of urban development. It presents a …