CSI.SP: Introduction To Global Informality by Anthony Fuchs (18 Feb 2009)

URBAN INFORMALITY

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.1 Nature 1.2 Culture 1.3 Characteristics 2. Formalizing informality 2.1 Historical Overview 2.2 Lessons learnt 2.3 Potential new ways 3. Concluding Remarks

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.1 Nature

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.1 Nature Informal vs Formal Nature vs Techne Informality is hetero defined and needs formality for existence. Formality has emerged out of necessity of survival and a wish to life beyond subsistence. Two moments of formality explosion: sedentism and industrial revolution

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.2 Culture

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.2 Culture Informal Built-Environment Informal Land markets Informal Economy Informal Organization

URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.2 Culture Informal Use Informal Built-Environment Informal Production Informal Land markets Informal Processes Informal Economy Informal Organization

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.2 Culture Informal Use Informal Built-Environment Informal Production Informal Land markets Informal Processes Informal Economy Informal Organization Informality as a Process

URBAN INFORMALITY From Migrant to Settler

URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

URBAN INFORMALITY From Subsistence to Businesses

URBAN INFORMALITY Water

URBAN INFORMALITY Sanitation

URBAN INFORMALITY Electricity

URBAN INFORMALITY Transportation

URBAN INFORMALITY Garbage Collecting

URBAN INFORMALITY Food Production

URBAN INFORMALITY Sweat Shops

URBAN INFORMALITY Recycling

URBAN INFORMALITY Laundry

URBAN INFORMALITY Businesses

URBAN INFORMALITY From Profit Maximization to Illegality

URBAN ILLEGALITY Drugs

URBAN ILLEGALITY Ammunition

URBAN ILLEGALITY Human Trade

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.3 Characteristics

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.3 Characteristics What informality is: different from poverty more than just illegal practices The only sustainable way to address greater than subsistence strategies development issues in the 21st century Is not confined to the Developing World Resource sensitive, cost efficient, bottom-up, participatory, flexible The most successful market for housing and employment in the Developing World The potential of informality

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? 1.3 Characteristics Potentials of informality Affordable Flexible Resource sensitive Irregular Multi-agent Inferior Quality Commercialization – Professionalism Illegality Threats of informality

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? Irregular

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? Inferior Quality: Insanitation

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? Inferior Quality: Hazardous

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? Commercialization – Professionalism

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? Multi-agent

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? Resource sensitive

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? Flexible

URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality? Affordable

URBAN INFORMALITY 2. Formalizing informality

URBAN INFORMALITY 2. Formalizing informality Thank you for your attention. Anthony Fuchs CCUC A.fuchs@ccuc.nl 0621106620

CSI.SP: Introduction To Global Informality by Anthony Fuchs (18 Feb 2009)

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