Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning

作者：Ananya Roy · 发表于：Journal of the American Planning Association · 年份：2005 · DOI：10.1080/01944360508976689 · 被引用次数：2251 · 研究领域：Urban and Rural Development Challenges、Urban Planning and Governance、Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Many of the significant urban transformations of the new century are taking place in the developing world. In particular, informality, once associated with poor squatter settlements, is now seen as a generalized mode of metropolitan urbanization. This article focuses on urban informality to highlight the challenges of dealing with the “unplannable” exceptions to the order of formal urbanization. It argues that planners must learn to work with this state of exception. Such policy epistemologies are useful not only for “Third World” cities but also more generally for urban planning concerned with distributive justice.