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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
Informals marked by invis real estate - privitization of squatting - Davis 2006
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Rousseau 1975
Property is the basis of inequality - basis of wealth in W
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Appadurai 2000
Spectral housing: housing central to substantive citizenship; spectral housing marks space of speculation
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Malcolm X
Revolution is based on land - basis of all indep, freedom eq
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Banerjee-Guha 2002
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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De Soto 2001
The Mystery of capital
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Gilbert 2012
Are title deeds the solution?
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Satterthwaite 2002
Institutional pluralism since 1980s. Governance important ensuring authorities = accountable to citizens
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Slum Dwellers International
Camps and networks to emphasise role of comms - own help is ourselves
34
Co-operatives E.g. Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Gurgaon, Mumbai
Coop assoc - range of nat & local groups.
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Hobson 2000
^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.
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Slum Rehabilitation Authority Scheme
Provide free formal housing for slum dwellers - turn slum into formal tenement housing. Tenements cross-subsidised by tenemends sold to open markets
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Loftus-Farren 2011
Tent Cities
38
Chatterton 2002
Squatting in global North
39
South as leading incubators in global urban form - 'representing the future of the cities' Echoes of how LA & Chicago in 20th C
Smith 2002
40
Informal sector exists outside 'institutionalized regulation' - extra legal (de Soto 1989), a 'shadow city'
Castells and Portes 1989
41
Informality viewed as the practice of the subaltern. A democracy 'from below'
Bayat 2000
42
Hip Hop in Brazil - bottom up governance Forster ingenuity - undercity on fringes of ever-looming 'overcity'
Malin 2010
43
People's Census. Self-documention - learning from individuals Kibera Slum, Nairboi - biggest in E Africa. Radical incrementalism
Pieterse 2008 Slum Dwellers International
44
Careful not to create S paradigm
Harris 2012
45
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
Ghertner 2008
46
New apartheid-style seg fast becoming the norm Bourgeois environmnetalism
Baviskar 2006
47
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
Roy 2009
48
Marg from city not exclusive to develing world, existing in form of gated comms
Zukin 1995
49
Division controls movement, exacerbating socio-spatial polarization
Mandanipour 2003
50
The city is full of socially heterogenous individuals - people as IFS, associational life
Simone 2004
51
Politics of quiet incrementalism - quiet encroachment of the ordinary
Bayat 2010
52
Insurgent Urbanism
Holston 1998
53
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
Marshall 1977
54
Under 1/3 most urbans in A, Asia & SUS referred to as 'good-qual sani'
UN Habitat 2003
55
Sanitation and gender in cities
Bapat & Agarwal 2011
56
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
Organgi Pilot Project, Karachi, Pakistan
57
A political society - toilet blocks - vote bank politics etc.
Chatterjee 2004
58
Sanitation and Urban geography - brings to light social, pol, econ issues associated with NBDs - gender issues etc.
Jewitt 2011
59
Invisible geography - informals
Brennan 1993
60
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
Davis 2006
61
Critical of Davis' overly apocalyptic description of word slum. Ignores processes and rad movements that fight displacement and work toward better SOL.
Angotti 2006
62
Squatting
Incremental Devel
63
Informals marked by invis real estate - privitization of squatting - Davis 2006
Pirate Urbanisation
64
Property is the basis of inequality - basis of wealth in W
Rousseau 1975
65
Spectral housing: housing central to substantive citizenship; spectral housing marks space of speculation
Appadurai 2000
66
Revolution is based on land - basis of all indep, freedom eq
Malcolm X
67
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.
Banerjee-Guha 2002
68
The Mystery of capital
De Soto 2001
69
Are title deeds the solution?
Gilbert 2012
70
Institutional pluralism since 1980s. Governance important ensuring authorities = accountable to citizens
Satterthwaite 2002
71
Camps and networks to emphasise role of comms - own help is ourselves
Slum Dwellers International
72
Coop assoc - range of nat & local groups.
Co-operatives E.g. Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Gurgaon, Mumbai
73
^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.
Hobson 2000
74
Provide free formal housing for slum dwellers - turn slum into formal tenement housing. Tenements cross-subsidised by tenemends sold to open markets
Slum Rehabilitation Authority Scheme
75
Tent Cities
Loftus-Farren 2011
76
Squatting in global North
Chatterton 2002

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