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Journal Articles

Agarwala, R. 2004. "From Work to Welfare: The State and Informal Workers’ Organizations in India." CMD Working Paper Series 04-07. Princeton University. Anjaria, J.S. 2006. "Street Space and Public Hawkers in Mumbai." Economic and Political Weekly May 27 [http://www.epw.org.in] Appadurai, A. 2002. "Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics." Public Culture. 14 (1): 21-47. Bhan G. 2009. ""This is No Longer the City I Once Knew." Evictions, the Urban Poor and the Right to the City in Millennial Delhi." Environment and Urbanization. 21 (1): 127-142. Bayat, A. 1997. "Un-Civil Society: the Politics of the Informal People." Third World Quarterly 18(1), 53-72. Bayat, A. 2000. "From ‘Dangerous Classes’ to ‘Quiet Rebels’: Politics of the Urban Subaltern in the Global South." International Sociology (15)3, 269-278. Benjamin, S. 2008. "Occupancy Urbanism: Radicalizing Politics and Economy Beyond Policy and Programs." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 32 (3): 719-729. Breman, J. 2006. "Slumlands." New Left Review 40: 141-148. Cuyvers, W. & Sommariva, E. 2006. "SMAQ Call me, now - An inquiry of the Rotterdam-Based Studio Describes how the Diffusion of Cellphones has Changed the Public Spaces of the Two Congolese Capitals Brazzaville and Kinshasa. Photographs and Maps by SMAQ." Domus. (896): 66. Davis, M. 2004. "Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat." New Left Review, 26: 5-34. Davis, M. 2004. "The Urbanization of Empire: Megacities and the Laws of Chaos." Social Text. 81: 9-16. Dierwechter, Y. 2004. "Dreams, Bricks, and Bodies: Mapping Neglected Spatialities' in African Cape Town." Environment & Planning A. 36 (6): 959-982. Garcia-Huidobro F., Torriti D.T., and Tugas N. 2011. "The Experimental Housing Project (PREVI), Lima: The Making of a Neighbourhood". Architectural Design. 81 (3): 26-31. Gibb, C. 2000. "Jeffery A. Nedoroscik, The City of the Dead: A History of Cairo's Cemetery Communities." International Journal Middle East Studies. 32 (4): 574-575. Gooptu, N. 2007. "Economic Liberalisation, Work and Democracy: Industrial Decline and Urban Politics in Kolkata." Economic and Political Weekly May 26, 2007 [http://www.epw.org.in]. Handzic, K. 2010. "Is Legalized Land Tenure Necessary in Slum Upgrading? Learning from Rio's Land Tenure Policies in the Favela Bairro Program." Habitat International. 34 (1): 11-17.
Hirt, S. 2008. "Landscapes of Postmodernity: Changes in the Built Fabric of Belgrade and Sofia Since the end of Socialism." Urban Geography. 29 (8): 785-810. Heuer, A., Rettich, S., Hafermalz, B., & Eling-Saalmann, S. 2011. "Open-Air-Library Magdeburg." A+U - Architecture and Urbanism. 488: 64-67. Hossain, S. 2012. "The Production of Space in the Negotiation of Water and Electricity Supply in a Bosti of Dhaka." Habitat International. 36 (1): 68-77. Huchzermeyer, M. 2004. "From ‘Contravention of Laws’ to ‘lack of Rights’: Redefining the Problem of Informal Settlements in South Africa." Habitat International. 28 (3): 333-347. Jenkins, P. 2001. "Strengthening Access to Land for Housing for the Poor in Maputo, Mozambique." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 25 (3): 629-648. Kudva N. 2009. "The Everyday and the Episodic: The Spatial and Political Impacts of Urban Informality." Environment and Planning A. 41 (7): 1614-1628. Lemanski, C. 2009. "Augmented informality: South Africas Backyard Dwellings as a By-product of Formal Housing Policies." Habitat International. 33 (4): 472-484. Leob, D. 2008. "Urban Voids: Grounds for Change Reimagining Philadelphias Vacant Lands." Architectural Design. 78 (1): 68-73. "Lucke als Ressource: Arno Brandlhuber." 2011. Baumeister. 108 (11): 10-17 Mahadevia, D. 2002. "Communal Space Over Life Space: Saga of Increasing Vulnerability in Ahmedabad." Economic and Political Weekly November 30. McFarlane, C. 2004. "Geographical imaginations and spaces of political engagement: Examples from the Indian Alliance." Antipode. 36 (5): 890-916. McFarlane, C. 2008. "Sanitation in Mumbai's Informal Settlements: State, ‘Slum', and Infrastructure." Environment & Planning A. 40 (1): 88-107. Mörtenböck, P., and Mooshammer, H. 2007. "Trading Indeterminacy - Informal Markets in Europe." Field, Volume 1, issue 1. Misselwitz, P. 2009. "Rehabilitating Camp Cities Community Driven Planning for Urbanised Refugee Camps." Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2009. Mukhija, V. 2005. "The Contradictions in Enabling Private Developers of Affordable Housing: A Cautionary Case from Ahmedabad, India." SAGE Urban Studies Abstracts. 33 (4). Oliveira, N. 1996. "Favelas and Ghettos: Race and Class in Rio de Janeiro and New York City." Latin American Perspectives. 23 (4): 71-89. Payne, G., Durand-Lasserve A., and Rakodi C. 2009. "The limits of Land Titling and Home Ownership." Environment and Urbanization. 21 (2): 443-462. Potrc, M. 2008. "Survival Strategies and Community Building in Post-Capitalism." Volume. 18: 100-111. Rao, V. 2006. "Slum as Theory: the South/Asian City and Globalization." International Journal of Urban and Regional Resarch. 30 (1): 225-232.
Roy, A. 2009. "Why India Cannot Plan its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization." Planning Theory. 8 (1): 76-87. Roy, A. 2011. "Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 35 (2). Simone, A. 2001. "Straddling the Divides: Remaking Associational Life in the Informal African City." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 25 (1): 102-117. Soliman, A.M. 2012. "The Egyptian Episode of Self-build Housing." Habitat International. 36 (2): 226-236. Srinivas, S. 2008. "Urban Labour Markets in the 21st Century: Dualism, Regulation and the Role(s) of the State." Habitat International. 32 (2): 141-159. Tunas D., and Peresthu, A. 2010. "The Self-help Housing in Indonesia: The Only Option for the Poor?" Habitat International. 34 (3): 315-322. Ward, P., et. al. 2004. "From the Marginality of the 1960s to the "New Poverty" of Today, A LARR Research Forum." Latin American Research Review 39, 1: 183-199 Ward, P.M., E.R. Jimenez Huerta, E. Grajeda, and C. Ubaldo Velazquez. 2011. "Self-help Housing Policies for Second Generation Inheritance and Succession of ''The House that Mum & Dad Built''." Habitat International. 35 (3): 467-485. Wang, Y.P., Wang, Y., and Wu, J. 2009. "Urbanization and Informal Development in China: Urban Villages in Shenzhen." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 33 (4): 957-973. Yiftachel, O. 2009. "Theoretical Notes on 'Gray Cities': The Coming of Urban Apartheid?" Planning Theory. 8 (1): 88-100.

Web Resources

Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author." Bauchner, Joshua. "The City that Built Itself." BAVO Research. "Plea for an Uncreative City." 2006 BAVO Research. 2008. "Plea for an Uncreative City – a Selfinterview." Bekend Terrein (Familiar Site), Eindhoven Brand, Stewart. "How Buildings Learn." Santiago Cirugeda-Biographical Sketch Colin Ward-Biographical Sketch Deconcrete Dessau-Roßlau "The cultural acceptance of urban landscape." Debord, Guy; Wolman, Gil. "A User’s Guide to Detournement."