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The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor

The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor

Mukhija, Vinit
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia

Paperback

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

EconomicsGeneral ArchitectureUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 026252578X
ISBN13: 9780262525787
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: May 2 2014
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.15
Language: English
An examination of informal urban activities--including street vending, garage sales, and unpermitted housing--that explores their complexity and addresses related planning and regulatory issues.

Every day in American cities street vendors spread out their wares on sidewalks, food trucks serve lunch from the curb, and homeowners hold sales in their front yards--examples of the wide range of informal activities that take place largely beyond the reach of government regulation. This book examines the informal revolution in American urban life, exploring a proliferating phenomenon often associated with developing countries rather than industrialized ones and often dismissed by planners and policy makers as marginal or even criminal. The case studies and analysis in The Informal City challenge this narrow conception of informal urbanism.

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