Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives

The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate how these trends make new forms of social and political power possible.

Preface	p. vii
Prologue/Dialogue Urban Informality: Crossing Borders	p. 1
Urban Informality as a "New" Way of Life	p. 7
Liberalization, Globalization, and Urban Informality
Love in the Time of Enhanced Capital Flows: Reflections on the Links between Liberalization and Informality	p. 33
The Changing Nature of the Informal Sector in Karachi due to Global Restructuring and Liberalization, and Its Repercussions	p. 67
Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South	p. 79
The Politics of Urban Informalities
Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2002	p. 105
The Gentlemen's City: Urban Informality in the Calcutta of New Communism	p. 147
Tilting at Sphinexes: Locating Urban Informality in Egyptian Cities	p. 171
Control, Resistance, and Informality: Urban Ethnocracy in Beer-Sheva, Israel	p. 209
Transnational Interrogation
Informality of Housing Production at the Urban-Rural Interface: The "Not So Strange Case" of the Texas Colonias	p. 243
Power, Property, and Poverty: Why De Soto's "Mystery of Capital" Cannot Be Solved	p. 271
Transnational Trespassings: The Geopolitics of Urban Informality	p. 289
Selected Bibliography	p. 319
Index	p. 323
Contributors	p. 337
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Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

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