Urban Informality

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, "e;as a site of transitions"e;, 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.

Part 1: Objectives, Substantive Issues and Structure of This Book.- Chapter 1. Scientific, knowledgeable background and Book Architecture.- Part 2: Urban Informality Transitions in the Middle East’s Cities.- Chapter 2. Governance and Sustainability Transitions on Urban Informality.- Chapter 3. Urbanization and Informality in the Era of Globalization.- Chapter 4. The Paradigm of Urban Informality: Laws, Norms, and Practices.- Chapter 5. State, Society, Economy, and Housing Informality.- Chapter 6. Land Rights, Governance and Urban Informality.- Chapter 7. Spatial Divide, Marginality, Social Exclusion, Social Cohesion, and Urban Informality.- Part 3: Cross-Regional Scene.- Chapter 8. A Puzzle of Urban Sustainability Transitions on Urban Informality in Egypt.- Chapter 9. The Pockets of Urban Informality in Lebanon.- Chapter 10. Hills of Urban Informality in Greater Amman, Jordan.- Part 4: Epilogue.- Chapter 11. A Credible Future.