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The informal American city : beyond taco trucks to day labor / edited by Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Urban and industrial environments.
- Urban and Industrial Environments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Informal sector (Economics)--United States.
- Informal sector (Economics).
- Social interaction--United States.
- Social interaction.
- Cities and towns--United States--Social conditions.
- Cities and towns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Settings; 1 The Garage Sale as Informal Economy and Transformative Urbanism; 2 Outlaw In-Laws: Informal Second Units and the Stealth Reinvention of Single-Family Housing; 3 The Reproduction of Informality in Low-Income Self-Help Housing Communities; 4 Making and Supporting Community Gardens as Informal Urban Landscapes; 5 "This Is My Front Yard!" Claims and Informal Property Rights on Sidewalks; 6 Learning from the Margin: Placemaking Tactics; 7 Surviving in America's Playground: Informal Sustenance Strategies among the Chronically Unhoused
- Part II Responses8 The Irreconcilable Tension between Dwelling in Public and the Regulatory State; 9 Learning from Informal Practices: Implications for Urban Design; 10 Formalizing City Farms: Conflict and Conciliation; 11 A More Delicious City: How to Legalize Street Food; 12 Crystals, Mud, and Space: Street Vending Informality; 13 "Keep Your Wheels On": Mediating Informality in the Food Cart Industry; 14 Regulating Day Labor: Worker Centers and Organizing in the Informal Economy; 15 Informal Parking Markets: Turning Problems into Solutions
- Conclusion: Deepening the Understanding of Informal UrbanismContributors; Index; Series List
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-32341-9
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