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Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities
This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South. The context of Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan—in the Middle East— is the transregional focus of this book. In these contexts, the book opens a new arena of academic discussion on the theory and practice of urban informality.
Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities questions urban informality, "as a site of transitions", interrelated and interlinked with urban sustainability transitions in speedy changes in a given environment. The book presents ‘urban informality sustainability transitions’ regarding resilience and adaptability that require shifts in urban systems. Shifts from a static process to a dynamic process that eradicates the fragmentation between the tensions, anxieties, and pressures of four modes of production, reproduction, consumptions, and distribution of goods and services in the city and its practices. Finally, through eleven chapters, the concluding remarks explore to what extent and how can urban informality transitions be sustainable.
Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities questions urban informality, "as a site of transitions", interrelated and interlinked with urban sustainability transitions in speedy changes in a given environment. The book presents ‘urban informality sustainability transitions’ regarding resilience and adaptability that require shifts in urban systems. Shifts from a static process to a dynamic process that eradicates the fragmentation between the tensions, anxieties, and pressures of four modes of production, reproduction, consumptions, and distribution of goods and services in the city and its practices. Finally, through eleven chapters, the concluding remarks explore to what extent and how can urban informality transitions be sustainable.
460 pages, ebook
Published April 26, 2021
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January 10, 2023
Pomdoro helped me read this one effectively!
Aside from it being a very specific book, like I wouldn't recommend this to anyone outside of The Informals network, I found a comprehensive explanation and description of urban informality in the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan). I was left sometimes trying to make sense on why he for instance differentiates between marginality and social exclusion in his analysis of urban informality.
This is the latest best manual on urban informality in the region, and I only regret the fact that it was only published in 2021 and not earlier in 2010 or so when the author had the idea ...
In any case rather late, than never !
Aside from it being a very specific book, like I wouldn't recommend this to anyone outside of The Informals network, I found a comprehensive explanation and description of urban informality in the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan). I was left sometimes trying to make sense on why he for instance differentiates between marginality and social exclusion in his analysis of urban informality.
This is the latest best manual on urban informality in the region, and I only regret the fact that it was only published in 2021 and not earlier in 2010 or so when the author had the idea ...
In any case rather late, than never !
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