Urban Informality

Melanie Lombard is Senior Lecturer in the Urban Studies and Planning Department at University of Sheffield, UK. Her research explores aspects of urban informality, relating particularly to housing, land and place, through a focus on urban residents’ everyday constructive activities, in cities in Latin America, Africa and the UK. She has published widely in journals and contributed chapters to several edited collections.Philipp Horn is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research focuses on inclusive urban development, indigenous urbanization, youth rights, and participatory planning in the global South, with a regional focus on Latin America. He has published numerous journal articles, books, book chapters and working papers.

• 1. Introduction: The Global Significance of Urban Informality2. Understanding Urban Informality3. Living Informally4. Working Informally5. Governing Informally6. Responses to Living Informally7. Responses to Working Informally8. Emerging Alternatives9. Conclusion: For Trans-local, Multi-Voice Understandings of Urban Informality

"This will be appreciated mainly by students and researchers with an interest on cities. It is surprising that, despite the empirical and policy relevance of urban informality, relatively few books have been published to complement the vast output of journal articles and official reports on the subject. This book fills this gap admirably." Journal of the American Planning Association