Urban informality encompasses a broad spectrum of unregulated or semi‐regulated practices, spaces and livelihoods that emerge alongside formally planned urban development. Far from being a marginal ...

We are excited to announce the launch of the Urban Informality Interest Group. This was inspired by our dialogue at the MIT World Real Estate Forum earlier this year and is a collective effort of MIT ...

With rapid economic development, Bangkok and BMR (Bangkok Mega Region) have become global hubs of production, finance and consumption, attracting the global investors and emerging upper class, but at ...

Informal urbanism, previously the domain of political economists and social scientists, has recently seen a revival in interest in both mainstream architecture as well as geography, urban studies and ...

In the bustling and rapidly transforming urban landscapes of Ghana, especially in major city centres like Accra and Kumasi, the heartbeat of economic resilience can be found not just in skyscrapers or ...

Population growth and urbanisation are transforming cities across Southern Africa, but unlike in many other parts of the world, the urban transition here isn’t paying off. Informal settlements, where ...

With rapid economic development, Bangkok and BMR (Bangkok Mega Region) have become global hubs of production, finance and consumption, attracting the global investors and emerging upper class, but at ...

Urban Zimbabwe presents a complex landscape in which rapid population growth, economic volatility and constrained municipal capacity intersect to produce diverse modes of informal urbanism. Informal ...