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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Urban informalities : reflections on the formal and informal.
1. Sociology, Urban.
I. McFarlane, Colin, 1979- II. Waibel, Michael.
307.76-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Urban informalities : reflections on the formal and informal / [edited] by
Colin McFarlane and Michael Waibel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-4132-8 (hbk) ISBN 978-1-315-54881-4 (ebook)
1. Urbanization. 2. UrbanizationEconomic aspects. 3.
Sociology, Urban. I. McFarlane, Colin, 1979- II. Waibel, Michael.
HT361.U7166 2011
307.76dc23
2012004466
ISBN 9781409441328 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315548814 (ebk)
List of Contributors
Uwe Altrock, PhD-Eng., is an urban planner, Professor for Urban Regeneration and Planning at the University of Kassel, Germany; 20032006; junior Professor for Urban Structures at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, 20022003; invited Professor for Neighbourhood Development at Hamburg University of Technology; co-editor of the German Yearbook of Urban Regeneration; fields of interest and research include urban governance, megacities, urban regeneration and planning, planning theory, planning history.
Pushpa Arabindoo is Lecturer in Geography and Urban Design at University College London. She trained as an architect and urban designer in India and the USA and completed her PhD in planning at the London School of Economics. Her research investigates several aspects of Indian urbanisation including aesthetic dimensions of planning, emerging forms of middle class militancy and the political impact of environmental disasters such as the 2004 tsunami and the 2005 floods on slum evictions and resettlement.
Rita de Ccia Oenning da Silva and Kurt Shaw are co-directors of Shine a Light, an international NGO that supports grass-roots programs for marginalised children around Latin America. Da Silvas doctoral dissertation, Overcoming through Performance, was an ethnography of child street artists in Recife. She has been a professor at the State University of Santa Catarina and was the winner of a 2007 Wenner-Gren award. Shaws work has won awards from the United Nations, the 2007 Harvard First Decade Prize, and the 2008 Freedom to Create Prize. In addition to their academic work, the two have collaborated on a number of films, including Lifes Roulette (written and acted by ex-child soldiers in Colombia), Transitions (fictional shorts by pre-school children from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro) and City of Rhyme (with young rappers and breakdancers from Recife).
Neslihan Demirta-Milz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Izmir University of Economics. Her research interests include neoliberal urban policies in developing countries with an emphasis on the Middle East and the Gulf region. The crossroads of urban transformation projects, informal settlements, ethnicity and poverty in Turkey constitute one of her strong research interests. Recently, she has been working on a research project focusing on young migrants from the Philippines and their integration to city space in UAE.
Ajay Gandhi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Gttingen, Germany and Lecturer in Anthropology and Contemporary Asian Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Yale University in 2010.
Markus Keck is a social geographer at the University of Bonn, Germany. His research interests include violent conflicts in Nepal, food provision in Bangladesh, and urban governance in South Asia. He is author of the monograph Geographien der Gewalt: Der Brgerkrieg in Nepal and seine Akteure (Tectum 2007). He recently received his PhD by completing a study on the organisation of food markets in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Volker Kreibich holds a Masters degree in Physical Geography from the University of Colorado, USA, and a PhD in Geography from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He worked as an urban development planner for Munich Municipality before joining the Faculty of Spatial Planning as a Professor of Geography and Development Management. His research focus is on urban land management with special reference to the interface between informal urban growth and public planning in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sandra Kurfrst has a degree in Southeast Asian Studies. Her research focuses on urbanism and state society relations in Southeast Asia. Her country of interest is Vietnam. From 20072008 she conducted field research in Hanoi for her PhD thesis Redefining public space in Hanoi: places, practices and meaning.
Astrid Ley is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Habitat Unit and at the international postgraduate master course in Urban Management Studies, both at Berlin University of Technology. She graduated in architecture and urban design at RWTH Aachen and holds a PhD in architecture from TU Berlin. She is the author of Housing as Governance: Interfaces between Local Government and Civil Society Organisations in Cape Town, South Africa (2010, LIT Verlag), and part of a DFG (German Research Foundation) funded research project on Housing for the Urban Poor: From Local Action to Global Networks. Her research interest include urbanisation in the Global South, related housing processes and the role of local governance and civil society.
Colin McFarlane is an urban geographer at Durham University, UK. His research focuses on the relations between urban infrastructure, knowledge and inequality. This has involved a concern both with how infrastructure poverty is produced and experienced, and with how different forms of knowledge and learning enable and limit peoples capacities to negotiate and produce infrastructure. This includes an effort to understand how sanitation is experienced within different informal settlements on an everyday basis, particularly in Mumbai. He is author of
