An examination of informal urban activities-including street
vending, garage sales, and unpermitted housing-that explores their
complexity and addresses related planning and regulatory issues.
Every day in American cities street vendors spread out their wares
on sidewalks, food trucks serve lunch from the curb, and homeowners
hold sales in their front yards-examples of the wide range of
informal activities that take place largely beyond the reach of
government regulation. This book examines the "informal revolution"
in American urban life, exploring a proliferating phenomenon often
associated with developing countries rather than industrialized
ones and often dismissed by planners and policy makers as marginal
or even criminal. The case studies and analysis in The Informal
City challenge this narrow conception of informal urbanism. The
chapters look at informal urbanism across the country, empirically
and theoretically, in cities that include Los Angeles, Sacramento,
Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Kansas City, Atlantic City, and New
York City. They cover activities that range from unpermitted in-law
apartments and ad hoc support for homeless citizens to urban
agriculture, street vending and day labor. The contributors
consider the nature and underlying logic of these activities, argue
for a spatial understanding of informality and its varied settings,
and discuss regulatory, planning, and community responses.
Contributors Jacob Avery, Ginny Browne, Matt Covert, Margaret
Crawford, Will Dominie, Renia Ehrenfeucht, Jeffrey Hou, Nabil
Kamel, Gregg Kettles, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Kate Mayerson,
Alfonso Morales, Vinit Mukhija, Michael Rios, Donald Shoup, Abel
Valenzuela Jr. Mark Vallianatos, Peter M. Ward
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