Urban Informality and the Built Environment: Infrastructure, Exchange and Image (FRINGE)

An innovative collection that explores how informal urban structures, from unauthorized residential areas to unregulated economic activities, shape urbanity through insights from architects, planners, political scientists, geographers, and urban theorists.

Urban Informality and the Built Environment demonstrates the value of greater and more diverse forms of engagement of built-environment disciplines with what constitutes urban informality and its politics. This collection lays forth a range of new methodologies to the study of urban informality, by exploring case studies from multiple geographies, including the creative place-making of street artists in Accra, the morphological evolution of urban Tirana, urban agriculture in la Habana, and social reproduction in Greece. Together these case studies offer ways to promote cross-fertilization between disciplines, lenses, geographies, and methodologies. Drawing on recent research by architects, planners, political scientists, geographers, and urban theorists, this book brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in diverse contexts.
 

Nerea Amorós Elorduy is the managing director of Creative Assemblages Llc. and guest professor at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-Barcelona, Spain.

Nikhilesh Sinha is professor of economics and finance and the chair of research ethics at Hult International Business School, London.
 

Colin Marx is professor of urban development planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL, UK.