| Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Soliman, Ahmed M. (Author), de Soto, Hernando (Foreword by), Al Sayyad, Nezar (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 3030689875 ISBN-13: 9783030689872 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Property - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7.7" W x 9.4" (2.10 lbs) 450 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South. The context of Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan--in the Middle East-- is the transregional focus of this book. In these contexts, the book opens a new arena of academic discussion on the theory and practice of urban informality. Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities questions urban informality, "as a site of transitions", interrelated and interlinked with urban sustainability transitions in speedy changes in a given environment. The book presents 'urban informality sustainability transitions' regarding resilience and adaptability that require shifts in urban systems. Shifts from a static process to a dynamic process that eradicates the fragmentation between the tensions, anxieties, and pressures of four modes of production, reproduction, consumptions, and distribution of goods and services in the city and its practices. Finally, through eleven chapters, the concluding remarks explore to what extent and how can urban informality transitions be sustainable. |