Coproducing urban space
Rethinking the formal/informal dichotomy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20154069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martijn Koster (0000-0003-0003-5345, Anthropology and Development Studies Radboud University Nijmegen the Netherlands, corresponding author), Monique Nuijten (Sociology of Development and Change Wageningen University Wageningen the Netherlands) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 282-294 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjtg.12160 |
| OpenAlex | W2537095184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 47 |
Providing an introduction to the special section ‘Close encounters: ethnographies of the coproduction of space by the urban poor’, this article sets out to argue that the image of ‘the informal’ as unruly, messy and dirty continues to inform urban planning around the world. As a reaction to this view, it contends that the informal and formal should be analysed as interconnected and that the informal sphere should be revalued. Urban development is studied as close encounters between established practices, with a locus and a history (tree‐like), and newly emerging, unstable and untraceable practices (rhizomatic). Contrary to the tendency in urban planning to conflate the formal with the tree and the informal with the rhizome, we argue that from the perspective of marginal urbanites, formal planning tends to be very arbitrary and frightening (rhizomatic), whereas informal practices can be very predictable and stable (arboreal). The article analyses residents of marginalized urban areas as inventive navigators who explore the changing physical, spatial and sociopolitical environment, avoiding threats and looking for opportunities, grounded in their everyday practices and life histories. The article concludes that marginal urbanites should be acknowledged as coproducers of urban space and that the right to ‘coproduce’ the city lies at the heart of the call for the right to the city
Coproduction · Ethnography · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
Assembling the Urban Frontier
Fijian infrastructural citizenship
“Activism Is a Good Means to Connect Things”
Disrupting Risk Governance? A Post-Disaster Politics of Inclusion in the Urban Margins
Genealogy of the gray spaces discourse in contemporary urban planning
Planning for Exclusion
Selling hope on credit
Zoning and the ‘ Right ’ City
Informal and Unserviceable
Roadside death memorials revisited
‘The law is not for the poor’
Participatory slum upgrading as a disjunctive process in Recife, Brazil
Towards a political economy of urban coproduction
The Delhi Bias
Decoding dispossession
Closing down bars in the inner city centre
Postrevolutionary land encroachments in Cairo
Institutional coalescence and illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana
Disrupting self-censorship, inventing public space through interactive performances in Luanda, Angola
Non-compliance and non-enforcement
Implication of institutional informality in the historical urban evolution of Morocco
Unraveling the self-made city
The disintegration and reproduction of communities
Food for thought
From Sectors to Circuits
Welfare ruination, debris and Europeans’ make-shift practices
Assembling territories of floods and slums in Pontianak, Indonesia
Roadside death memorials
Introduction
Informal governance and the spatial management of street-based sex work in Aotearoa New Zealand
Informal production of the city
From Visible Informality to Splintered Informalities
An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil
Informality as the Ur-Form of Urbanity
Changing Properties of Property
Development Sociology
A ‘Rhizomic’ Model of Organizational Change and Transformation
Rethinking Informality
Planet of Slums
Encounters at the Interface
‘The law is not for the poor’
Forced Evictions in Tropical Cities
Participatory slum upgrading as a disjunctive process in Recife, Brazil
Regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil
Wastelands, degraded lands and forests, and the class(ification) struggle
Decoding dispossession
Closing down bars in the inner city centre
Postrevolutionary land encroachments in Cairo
Thinking Through Sociality
Misteri i Kapitalit
An Anthropological Critique of Development
Informal urbanism and complex adaptive assemblage
Re-viewing informality
Theoretical Notes On `Gray Cities
Slumming about
The Politics of the Evicted
Speculating on Slums
From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations
Enacting immanent potentialities
Neoliberal privatisation? Remapping the public and the private in Sydney's masterplanned residential estates
Urban Informality
Slum-free cities of the Asian century
Informal Urbanism and the Taste for Slums
The Political Construction of Wasteland
The City as Assemblage
Bangkok Space, and Conditions of Possibility
Postcolonialising Informality
Private or public
Changing Times, Changing Places
Sanitation in Mumbai's Informal Settlements
Access and Property
Occupancy Urbanism
Government of Paper
The Politics of the Governed
Motion squared
Introduction - Urban Charisma
Fear and Intimacy
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |