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Rethinking the Informal City

Rethinking the Informal City
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 1845455827
ISBN-13 : 9781845455828
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Book Synopsis Rethinking the Informal City by : Felipe Hernández

Download or read book Rethinking the Informal City written by Felipe Hernández and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, despite intrinsic semantic implications, the terms formal and informal do not refer only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Given the fact that informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity expected to be found in the formal city, the wide-ranging essays in this volume from disciplinary areas such as anthropology, architecture, history, cultural and urban studies, and sociology are concerned with the need to produce alternative methods of analysis in order to study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a thoroughgoing review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities.


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