Bringing together imaginative architectural approaches with texts by key contemporary thinkers, the two-part Informal Market Worlds explores new ways to interrupt the dominant logics of neoliberal governance. The Reader
includes expert essays on urban informality, bottom-up economies and
informal architectures as harbingers of social and political change.
Offering
a global perspective on the conflicted realities of informal
marketplaces--from survival activities of the urban poor to
transnational clandestine trade networks--these analyses reveal how
informality has become a political instrument in the struggles around
global market integration.
