Informal Housing in the Global North
Exploring Practices, Actors and Processes in a Transforming Housing System
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Informal Housing in the Global North
Exploring Practices, Actors and Processes in a Transforming Housing System
About this book
Informal Housing in the Global North proposes analytical and conceptual approaches to investigate the progressing 'informalisation' of contemporary housing in the Global North and beyond.
Amidst the ongoing housing crisis, the reading of informalities in the so-called North has increasingly disrupted the conventional understanding of local cities as fully regulated, well-structured and formal. By juxtaposing contested, successful and 'under- the- radar' ordinary housing phenomena across various income levels, this volume seeks to unpack and document the embeddedness of informality in mid- and high-income cities. This investigation reveals the pervasive and hybrid nature of local housing systems, in which formal frameworks defining modes of utilising spaces and architectural design are continuously reinterpreted by users, public sector actors and market entities alike. It reflects on everyday housing pathways and the agency of those who, by preference or necessity, engage with solutions conventionally labelled as informal.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of housing studies, planning, architecture and urban sociology as well as practitioners working in the field of housing.
The Introduction and chapter 8 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Perspectives on housing informality in the āNorthā
- Part I Encroachment
- 2 Formal/informal continuum?: Secondary dwelling production and digital rental markets in Sydney, Australia
- 3 Navigating Hong Kongās informal housing: Stakeholdersā interactions on spatial quality in subdivided homes
- Part II Solidarities
- 4 Otherness and informality: Everyday tactics of social inclusion among Oxford boating community
- 5 Refugee access to housing in Germany: (In)formal restrictions and opportunities
- Part III Struggles and appropriation
- 6 For a spatial politics of dwelling: Awareness, contestation and homemaking in the individual occupations of public housing in Naples, Italy
- 7 Making a platz in the city: How Roma families appropriate urban space to have a home in Paris suburbs
- Part IV Gatekeeping
- 8 Unpacking everyday management in a city improvement district: Property caretakers as street-level bureaucrats in Ekhaya, Hillbrow, Johannesburg
- 9 Living in someone elseās place: An exploration of subletting practices in Berlin in times of housing crisis
- 10 Concluding remarks and way forward
- Index