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Informal Cities : Histories of Governance and Inequality in Latin Europe, Latin America, and Colonial North Africa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vorms, Charlotte.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Squatter settlements.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents.Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Informal Urbanism as History
- PART I: Law, Governance, and the Invention of Informality
- 1 Four Regimes of Informality: Legal Practices and Revolutionary Politics in Twentieth-Century Mexico City
- 2 From Insalubrious Housing to Unauthorized Neighborhoods: The Conceptualization of Urban Informality in Italy, 1880s–1960s
- 3 A Century of Governing with Informal Urbanization in Madrid, 1860s–1960s
- PART II: Urban Informality and Political Struggle
- 4 “The Order Came from Above”: The Political and Ideological Foundations of Fascism’s Struggle against the Baracche in Rome
- 5 Carioca Favelas and the Catholic Church after World War II: The Case of the Fundação Leão XIII’s Interventions in Praia do Pinto
- 6 Democratizing the Republic by Instituting the Informal: Barrio Irregularity in Caracas and Venezuelan Democratization, 1941–1964
- 7 The Invention of the Toma: Informality and Mobilization in Santiago de Chile, 1945–1957
- PART III: Race and Colonial Domination
- 8 Informality, Racialized Governance, and the Cidade Negra in Modern Brazil
- 9 Bidonvilles in France: A New Term for an Old Phenomenon?
- 10 Urban Risk? Constructing Shantytowns as a Problem of Colonial Governance in Algiers and Casablanca, 1919–1962
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- ISBN:
- 0-226-83600-2
- OCLC:
- 1534197122
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