Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities

This professional book provides an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East aligned with the Global South, focusing on Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan. It explores urban informality as a site of transitions, interconnected with urban sustainability transitions, and presents strategies for sustainable urban informality transitions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 450 pages
Publication date: 28 April 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive professional book offers a novel analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East, seamlessly aligning with the Global South. The focus of this book lies in the context of Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, situated in the Middle East region. By exploring these specific contexts, the book pioneers a fresh academic discourse on the theory and practical applications of urban informality. Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities delves into the multifaceted nature of urban informality, recognizing it as a dynamic site of transitions that intertwine and interlink with urban sustainability transitions in response to rapid changes within a given environment. The book explores the concept of urban informality as a catalyst for resilience and adaptability, necessitating shifts in urban systems to address the fragmentation between the tensions, anxieties, and pressures associated with four modes of production, reproduction, consumption, and distribution of goods and services in cities and their practices.

Throughout eleven chapters, the concluding remarks delve into the extent to which and how urban informality transitions can be sustainable. This insightful exploration provides valuable insights into the potential for sustainable urban development in the Middle East and beyond.

Weight: 724g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030689902
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021