Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home
became a global phenomenon, yet before 2020, it was a relatively
understudied practice. But in informal settlements, the definition
of "home" and "employment" is completely intertwined, which is why
there is so much to learn from them. For over half a century,
mainstream theoretical approaches to urban informality, dominated
by development economics, often fail to see this economic and
spatial phenomenon jointly. Labor studies tend to be space-blind
and spatial studies often disregard informal employment. Profoundly
interdisciplinary, this work connects scholarship in development,
public policy, labor studies, and feminist economics, with that in
urban studies, planning, housing, architecture, and visual studies.
The book walks the reader behind the closed doors of working homes
that make the fabric, both social and economic, of most cities. It
applies a visual methodology to reveal their "space-use intensity"
and quantify the extent to which houses in informal settlements
fill their inner pores with economic activity and community
services. The research also revisits urban formalization policies
in Latin America and Africa, to uncover a fallacious politics of
recognition. It ultimately argues for a recognition continuum: an
approach to urban informality that is more practical and fairer.
The book is of interest to development economists, urban scholars,
public policy specialists, time-use researchers, and architects
working on housing, employment generation, urban livelihoods,
gender studies, and related topics.
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