URBAN INFORMALITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH:REVIEW AND IMPLICATIONS
HUANG Ying-min1, XUE De-sheng1, HUANG Geng-zhi2
1. School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
2. Guangdong Open Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, China
Abstract：Much of the theoretical work on city-regions is firmly located in the urban experience of North Americaand Western Europe. However, western urban researchers consider that much of the urban growth is taking place at the cities of Global South since 2000, these "new geographies" will product new urban theory, and the main and general feature is urban informality. Firstly, this paper focus on the evolution of urban informality, which transcend the formal-informal divide in context and epistemology, also defined the notion of urban informality as a kind of governance mode; Second, the study focus of institutional change and urban informality on interactives among state, local government, enterprises and individuals, based on the interactives, there exist three kinds of urban informality. The complementary informality emphasize on negotiations, supplementary informality emphasize on regulation, and conceded informality emphasize on state power and institutional change when actors take interactives; At last, this paper summarize the origin of urban informality in China from political, social and culture perspective, and make some implications that urban informality is one of urban development modes in China. Urban informality can be seen as a coping strategy the Chinese governments are using to deal with new phenomena of urbanizationand critical situations in times of permanent change and legal uncertainty. Informal practices and informal institution will be the seed of formal institution and institutional innovation.
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