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Urban Informality

Urban Informality is a socio-spatial process characterized by the emergence of practices, economies, and settlements that operate outside formal regulatory frameworks and institutionalized urban governance structures.

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Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana

Keith Hart · The Journal of Modern African Studies · 1973 · 3.1K citations

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Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning

Ananya Roy · Journal of the American Planning Association · 2005 · 2.2K citations

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Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization

Ananya Roy · Planning Theory · 2009 · 1.4K citations

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Social Pressures in Informal Groups, a Study of Human Factors in Housing

Marguerite Keller, Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter et al. · The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly · 1952 · 1.1K citations

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Does Informality Imply Segmentation in Urban Labor Markets? Evidence from Sectoral Transitions in Mexico

William F. Maloney · The World Bank Economic Review · 1999 · 741 citations

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Authors

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    Colin C. Williams

    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    23 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Kim Dovey

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

    15 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. HK
    Hesam Kamalipour

    Cardiff University, United Kingdom

    13 publications · 621 citations

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  4. CM
    Christian M. Rogerson

    University of Johannesburg, South Africa

    14 publications · 484 citations

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    Melanie Lombard

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 1.1K citations

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Institutions

1.2K

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    29 h-index

    53 publications

    4.6K citations

  2. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    29 h-index

    59 publications

    3.6K citations

  3. University of Cape Town

    Rondebosch, South Africa

    27 h-index

    57 publications

    3.2K citations

  4. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    24 h-index

    56 publications

    2.2K citations

  5. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    23 h-index

    51 publications

    2.8K citations

  6. Stellenbosch University

    Stellenbosch, South Africa

    21 h-index

    52 publications

    2.2K citations

  7. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    20 h-index

    26 publications

    2.6K citations

  8. Cardiff University

    Cardiff, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    28 publications

    1.7K citations

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  1. Urban Studies

    101 publications · 6.6K citations

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  3. Environment and Urbanization

    61 publications · 3.6K citations

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  4. Habitat International

    55 publications · 3.1K citations

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  5. Cities

    48 publications · 1.9K citations

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