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Urban Informality Flashcards

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Smith 2002

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South as leading incubators in global urban form - ‘representing the future of the cities’ Echoes of how LA & Chicago in 20th C

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Castells and Portes 1989

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Informal sector exists outside ‘institutionalized regulation’ - extra legal (de Soto 1989), a ‘shadow city’

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Bayat 2000

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Informality viewed as the practice of the subaltern. A democracy ‘from below’

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Malin 2010

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Hip Hop in Brazil - bottom up governance Forster ingenuity - undercity on fringes of ever-looming ‘overcity’

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Pieterse 2008 Slum Dwellers International

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People’s Census. Self-documention - learning from individuals Kibera Slum, Nairboi - biggest in E Africa. Radical incrementalism

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Harris 2012

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Careful not to create S paradigm

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Ghertner 2008

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What is deemed ‘illegal’ looks ‘illegal’ - aesthetics. Maj Delhi violates planning or building law - construction: ‘unauthorized’ Some areas designated as illegal and worthy of demolition whilst others are protected & formalized

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Baviskar 2006

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New apartheid-style seg fast becoming the norm Bourgeois environmnetalism

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Roy 2009

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Why India canot plan its cities - informalisation of the formal. Informalization of vesting. Differentiation betwteen formal & informal, rather than between legal and illegal - is a fundamental axis of inequality in urban I today

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Zukin 1995

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Marg from city not exclusive to develing world, existing in form of gated comms

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Mandanipour 2003

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Division controls movement, exacerbating socio-spatial polarization

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Simone 2004

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The city is full of socially heterogenous individuals - people as IFS, associational life

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Bayat 2010

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Politics of quiet incrementalism - quiet encroachment of the ordinary

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Holston 1998

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Insurgent Urbanism

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Marshall 1977

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Shared community has become problematic. Links to insurgent urbanism and citizenship. What now constitues that ‘direct sense of comm membership based on loyalty to a civ which is a common possession - in the past this sense has been a supralocal national consciousness - but experiencing divide

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UN Habitat 2003

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Under 1/3 most urbans in A, Asia & SUS referred to as ‘good-qual sani’

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Bapat & Agarwal 2011

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Sanitation and gender in cities

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Organgi Pilot Project, Karachi, Pakistan

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Econ centre of Pakistan with 60% of pop living in informals - finances and manages facilities like sewage, water supply and solid waste disposal. In 80s, people there decided installation of sewage was their highest priorit

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Chatterjee 2004

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A political society - toilet blocks - vote bank politics etc.

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Jewitt 2011

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Sanitation and Urban geography - brings to light social, pol, econ issues associated with NBDs - gender issues etc.

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Brennan 1993

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Invisible geography - informals

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Davis 2006

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Planet of slums - argues slums are a prod of capitalism - prod of cap separation of poor and rich: lumpen proletariat. NL has been recipe for mass slum prod. Global capital of slum dwellings

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Angotti 2006

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Critical of Davis’ overly apocalyptic description of word slum. Ignores processes and rad movements that fight displacement and work toward better SOL.

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Incremental Devel

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Squatting

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Pirate Urbanisation

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Informals marked by invis real estate - privitization of squatting - Davis 2006

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Rousseau 1975

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Property is the basis of inequality - basis of wealth in W

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Appadurai 2000

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Spectral housing: housing central to substantive citizenship; spectral housing marks space of speculation

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28
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Malcolm X

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Revolution is based on land - basis of all indep, freedom eq

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29
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Banerjee-Guha 2002

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Despite drop in real estate prices in Mumbai since mid-90s - global finances & indig counterparts v attracted to Mumbai. This keeps high prices & inflation alive.

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30
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De Soto 2001

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The Mystery of capital

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31
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Gilbert 2012

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Are title deeds the solution?

32
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Satterthwaite 2002

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Institutional pluralism since 1980s. Governance important ensuring authorities = accountable to citizens

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Slum Dwellers International

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Camps and networks to emphasise role of comms - own help is ourselves

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Co-operatives E.g. Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Gurgaon, Mumbai

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Coop assoc - range of nat & local groups.

35
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Hobson 2000

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^ing gap between demand and supply of basic services has forced urban local (gov) bodies to work out alternative instit arrangements, rather than dep on state govs of own state. Institutional pluralism since 1980s - but often with unequal relations of power.

36
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Slum Rehabilitation Authority Scheme

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Provide free formal housing for slum dwellers - turn slum into formal tenement housing. Tenements cross-subsidised by tenemends sold to open markets

37
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Loftus-Farren 2011

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Tent Cities

38
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Chatterton 2002

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Squatting in global North

39
Q

South as leading incubators in global urban form - ‘representing the future of the cities’ Echoes of how LA & Chicago in 20th C

A

Smith 2002

40
Q

Informal sector exists outside ‘institutionalized regulation’ - extra legal (de Soto 1989), a ‘shadow city’

A

Castells and Portes 1989

41
Q

Informality viewed as the practice of the subaltern. A democracy ‘from below’

A

Bayat 2000

42
Q

Hip Hop in Brazil - bottom up governance Forster ingenuity - undercity on fringes of ever-looming ‘overcity’

A

Malin 2010

43
Q

People’s Census. Self-documention - learning from individuals Kibera Slum, Nairboi - biggest in E Africa. Radical incrementalism

A

Pieterse 2008 Slum Dwellers International

44
Q

Careful not to create S paradigm

A

Harris 2012

45
Q

What is deemed ‘illegal’ looks ‘illegal’ - aesthetics. Maj Delhi violates planning or building law - construction: ‘unauthorized’ Some areas designated as illegal and worthy of demolition whilst others are protected & formalized

A

Ghertner 2008

46
Q

New apartheid-style seg fast becoming the norm Bourgeois environmnetalism

A

Baviskar 2006

47
Q

Why India canot plan its cities - informalisation of the formal. Informalization of vesting. Differentiation betwteen formal & informal, rather than between legal and illegal - is a fundamental axis of inequality in urban I today

A

Roy 2009

48
Q

Marg from city not exclusive to develing world, existing in form of gated comms

A

Zukin 1995

49
Q

Division controls movement, exacerbating socio-spatial polarization

A

Mandanipour 2003

50
Q

The city is full of socially heterogenous individuals - people as IFS, associational life

A

Simone 2004

51
Q

Politics of quiet incrementalism - quiet encroachment of the ordinary

A

Bayat 2010

52
Q

Insurgent Urbanism

A

Holston 1998

53
Q

Shared community has become problematic. Links to insurgent urbanism and citizenship. What now constitues that ‘direct sense of comm membership based on loyalty to a civ which is a common possession - in the past this sense has been a supralocal national consciousness - but experiencing divide

A

Marshall 1977

54
Q

Under 1/3 most urbans in A, Asia & SUS referred to as ‘good-qual sani’

A

UN Habitat 2003

55
Q

Sanitation and gender in cities

A

Bapat & Agarwal 2011

56
Q

Econ centre of Pakistan with 60% of pop living in informals - finances and manages facilities like sewage, water supply and solid waste disposal. In 80s, people there decided installation of sewage was their highest priorit

A

Organgi Pilot Project, Karachi, Pakistan

57
Q

A political society - toilet blocks - vote bank politics etc.

A

Chatterjee 2004

58
Q

Sanitation and Urban geography - brings to light social, pol, econ issues associated with NBDs - gender issues etc.

A

Jewitt 2011

59
Q

Invisible geography - informals

A

Brennan 1993

60
Q

Planet of slums - argues slums are a prod of capitalism - prod of cap separation of poor and rich: lumpen proletariat. NL has been recipe for mass slum prod. Global capital of slum dwellings

A

Davis 2006

61
Q

Critical of Davis’ overly apocalyptic description of word slum. Ignores processes and rad movements that fight displacement and work toward better SOL.

A

Angotti 2006

62
Q

Squatting

A

Incremental Devel

63
Q

Informals marked by invis real estate - privitization of squatting - Davis 2006

A

Pirate Urbanisation

64
Q

Property is the basis of inequality - basis of wealth in W

A

Rousseau 1975

65
Q

Spectral housing: housing central to substantive citizenship; spectral housing marks space of speculation

A

Appadurai 2000

66
Q

Revolution is based on land - basis of all indep, freedom eq

A

Malcolm X

67
Q

Despite drop in real estate prices in Mumbai since mid-90s - global finances & indig counterparts v attracted to Mumbai. This keeps high prices & inflation alive.

A

Banerjee-Guha 2002

68
Q

The Mystery of capital

A

De Soto 2001

69
Q

Are title deeds the solution?

A

Gilbert 2012

70
Q

Institutional pluralism since 1980s. Governance important ensuring authorities = accountable to citizens

A

Satterthwaite 2002

71
Q

Camps and networks to emphasise role of comms - own help is ourselves

A

Slum Dwellers International

72
Q

Coop assoc - range of nat & local groups.

A

Co-operatives E.g. Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Gurgaon, Mumbai

73
Q

^ing gap between demand and supply of basic services has forced urban local (gov) bodies to work out alternative instit arrangements, rather than dep on state govs of own state. Institutional pluralism since 1980s - but often with unequal relations of power.

A

Hobson 2000

74
Q

Provide free formal housing for slum dwellers - turn slum into formal tenement housing. Tenements cross-subsidised by tenemends sold to open markets

A

Slum Rehabilitation Authority Scheme

75
Q

Tent Cities

A

Loftus-Farren 2011

76
Q

Squatting in global North

A

Chatterton 2002

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