Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America

摘要

The editors argue that 'the present study shows how, at this moment, the formal and the informal have become not only inseparable and interdependent but also indefinable' (p. 6). Not unreasonably, they do not like the formal/informal dichotomy because it is too simplistic. Instead they claim that 'this book provides a thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities' (back cover).