Book THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON INFORMAL URBANIZATION

Edited by Roberto Rocco and Jan van Ballegooijen

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction and Acknowledgments (Roberto Rocco)

Chapter 1: The Political Meaning of Informal Urbanization (Roberto Rocco and Jan van Ballegooijen)

Chapter 2: AHMEDABAD. Urban Informality and the Production of Exclusion (Vrushti Mawani, Michael Leaf)

Chapter 3: ANKARA. Struggles for Housing: Legitimate, Self-Contradictory or Both? Impacts of Clientelism and Rights-Seeking on Informal Housing in Ankara (Yelda Kızıldağ Özdemirli)

Chapter 4: BALKANS. Informal settlements in the Balkans: Squatters’ magic realism vs. planners’ modernist fantasy vs. governments’ tolerance and opportunism (Dorina Pojani)

Chapter 5: BEIRUT. Dahiye: An Active Space for Social Justice and Resistance: Re-imagining Informality in Light of Growing Urban Marginality (Nabil Nazha)

Chapter 6: BELO HORIZONTE. New urban occupations in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte and the struggle for housing rights (Maria Tereza Fonseca Dias, Juliano dos Santos Calixto, Larissa Pirchiner de Oliveira Vieira, Ananda Martins Carvalho, Carolina Spyer Vieira Assad, Lucas Nasser Marques de Souza, Fúlvio Alvarenga Sampaio, Julia Dinardi Alves Pinto, and Marcos Bernardes Rosa)

Chapter 7: CAIRO. Right to the City and Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Cairo (Noheir Elgendy, Alessandro Frigerio)

Chapter 8: FORTALEZA. Informal urbanization versus modernization: popular resistance in Fortaleza, Brazil (Germana Câmara , Clarissa Freitasand Beatriz Rufino)

Chapter 9: GUANGZHOU. Fewer contestations, more negotiations : A multi-scalar understanding of the ‘politics of informal urbanization’ in southern China (Josefine Fokdal, Peter Herrle)

CHAPTER 10: GUAYAQUIL. Conflicting competences in Guayaquil’s contested and (in)formal periphery (Alina Delgado, Olga Peek, Viviana d’Auria)

CHAPTER 11: HANOI. A study of informally developed housing and its role in the political arena of a post-reform communist city(Stephanie Geertman and Boram Kim)

CHAPTER 12: HARARE. Informality and Urban Citizenship: Housing Struggles in Harare, Zimbabwe (Davison Muchadenyika, Molin K. Chakamba, and Patience Mguni )

CHAPTER 13: JERUSALEM. The multifaceted politics of informality in Jerusalem at the time of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Francesco Chiodelli)

CHAPTER 14: JOHANNESBURG. The Political Ecology of the Right to the Rainbow City Informal spaces and practices and the quest for socio-environmental rights in urbanizing Johannesburg (Costanza La Mantia, Dylan Weakley)

CHAPTER 15: KHARTOUM. The Politics of Displacement in a Conflictive Polity (Budoor Bukhari)

CHAPTER 16: LIMA. Lima: Informal Urbanization and the State: The Rise and Fall of Urban Populism in Lima (Matteo Stiglich, Adrián Lerner)

CHAPTER 17: MASHHAD. Claiming the right to the city: Informal urbanisation in the holy city of Mashhad (Elham Bahmanteymouri, Mohsen Mohammadzadeh)

CHAPTER 18: MEDELLIN. Performative infrastructures: Medellin’s governmental technologies of informality. The case of the Encircled Garden Project in Comuna 8 (Catalina Ortiz, Camillo Boano)

CHAPTER 19: MUMBAI. Profit versus People: The Struggle for Inclusion in Mumbai (Rohan Varma, Kritika Sha).

CHAPTER 20: NAIROBI. The Socio-Political Implications of Informal Tenement Housing in Nairobi, Kenya. (Miriam Maina, Baraka Mwau)

CHAPTER 21: PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti’s Disaster Urbanism: The Emerging City of Canaan(Angela Sherwood, Laura Smits, Anna Konotchick)

CHAPTER 22:  RIO DE JANEIRO. Tackling Informality in Low-Income Housing: The Case of the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro (Alex Ferreira Magalhães)

CHAPTER 23: SÃO PAULO. Cortiços: Interstitial Urbanization in Central São Paulo (Jeroen Stevens, Bruno De Meulder, Débora Sanches)

CHAPTER 24: SÃO PAULO. Occupations: A pedagogy of confrontation: Informal building occupations in São Paulo’s central neighbourhoods (Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Beatrice De Carli, Benedito Roberto Barbosa, Francisco de Assis Comarú, Ricardo de Sousa Moretti)

CHAPTER 25: SEOUL. The evolution of informal settlers’ political gains in changing state regimes in Seoul (Boram Kim , Hogeun Park, Jaehyeon Park)

CHAPTER 26: YOGYAKARTA. Slum dwellers strategies and tactics in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Sonia Roitman)