Urban informality and the built environment infrastructure, exchange and image / edited by Nerea Amoros Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha, Colin Marx. [electronic resource] :

List of figures and tables List of contributors Series editors' preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: foregrounding the built environment Nerea Amors Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha and Colin Marx 2 Informality and infrastructure Swati Chattopadhyay 3 Informalities of exchange Fran Tonkiss 4 The image of informal settlements Kim Dovey 5 The role of change maker painters: graffiti and street art in Accra, Ghana Claire Tunnacliffe 6 Informal everyday water infrastructures in the in-between territories of Galicia Lucia Cerrada Morato 7 A morphogenetic approach to informality: the case of post-socialist Tirana Blerta Dino 8 Informal structures of welfare: emerging spaces of social reproduction in Athens Isabel Gutirrez Snchez 9 Rhythmanalysis as exploration of urban informality in Havana, Cuba Susan Fitzgerald 10 The death and life of Jian-Cheng Circle: a negative lesson to the built informality of urban places Chin-Wei Chang 11 Informality as pedagogy: collective design in the Mariamma Nagar settlement Nicola Antaki 12 Informality as an urban trend in mainstream architectural publications Fani Kostourou and Paul Goodship 13 Conclusion: foregrounding positionality Nerea Amors Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha and Colin Marx Index

'Urban Informality and the Built Environment' brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in diverse contexts. Urban Informality and the Built Environment demonstrates the value of greater and more diverse forms of engagement of built environment disciplines in what constitutes urban informality and its politics. It brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in diverse contexts, drawing on recent research by architects, planners, political scientists, geographers and urban theorists. The book presents different case studies from multiple geographies, drawing attention to the need for studying urban informality in the Global North and Global South. The cases promote a cross-fertilization between disciplines, lenses, geographies and methodologies. They range from the creative place-making of street artists in Accra, to the morphological evolution of urban Tirana, urban agriculture in la Habana and social reproduction in Greece. Additional contributions highlight the cross-cutting themes of infrastructure, exchange and image. Urban Informality and the Built Environment introduces built environment disciplines to its constitutive roles in producing urban informality. It also tests a range of new methodologies to the study of urban informality, demonstrating the possibilities for new insights when building on the relational understanding of urban informality.