Title & Author:

The informal American city : from taco trucks to day labor / edited by Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Description:

viii, 325 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Settings -- 1. The Garage Sale as Informal Economy and Transformative Urbanism / Margaret Crawford -- 2. Outlaw In-Laws: Informal Second Units and the Stealth Reinvention of Single-Family Housing / Vinit Mukhija -- 3. The Reproduction of Informality in Low-Income Self-Help Housing Communities / Peter M. Ward -- 4. Making and Supporting Community Gardens as Informal Urban Landscapes / Jeffrey Hou -- 5."This Is My Front Yard!" Claims and Informal Property Rights on Sidewalks / Renia Ehrenfeucht -- 6. Learning from the Margin: Placemaking Tactics / Nabil Kamel -- 7. Surviving in America's Playground: Informal Sustenance Strategies among the Chronically Unhoused / Jacob Avery -- pt. II Responses -- 8. The Irreconcilable Tension between Dwelling in Public and the Regulatory State / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris -- 9. Learning from Informal Practices: Implications for Urban Design / Michael Rios.
Contents note continued: 10. Formalizing City Farms: Conflict and Conciliation / Alfonso Morales -- 11.A More Delicious City: How to Legalize Street Food / Mark Vallianatos -- 12. Crystals, Mud, and Space: Street Vending Informality / Gregg Kettles -- 13."Keep Your Wheels On": Mediating Informality in the Food Cart Industry / Kate Mayerson -- 14. Regulating Day Labor: Worker Centers and Organizing in the Informal Economy / Abel Valenzuela Jr. -- 15. Informal Parking Markets: Turning Problems into Solutions / Donald Shoup.

ISBN:

9780262027076 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262027070 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262525787 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
026252578X (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Informal sector (Economics) United States.
Social interaction United States.
Cities and towns United States Social conditions.
Secteur informel (Économie politique) États-Unis.
Interaction sociale États-Unis.
Villes États-Unis Conditions sociales.
Cities and towns Social conditions.
Informal sector (Economics)
Social interaction.
United States.

Added entries:

Mukhija, Vinit, 1967- editor.
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, 1958- editor.
Urban and industrial environments.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286519
Call No.: BIB 226897
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available