Despite a growing number of studies featuring “informality” in their title, including many from
the post-socialist region, little has been done to reach a consensus on what informality …

Understandings of informality commonly derive from research undertaken in states
perceived as lacking the capacity to regulate the practices of their populations. This …

Abstract Across the Global South, the realities of urban informality are changing, with
implications for how we understand this phenomenon across economic, spatial, and political …

The paper provides an introductory theoretical framework for this special issue of Geography
Research Forum titled “The Spatial Dimension of Informality: Power and Law”. Firstly, the …

While the importance of the informal sector and informality in processes of urbanisation is
increasingly widely acknowledged across development studies, architecture, planning and …

This is not another attempt to define or re-define the term'informality'in the context of urban
development. Instead, our intention is to propose a set of parameters to describe processes …

In spite of theoretical predictions by a number of scholars, and efforts by practitioners, laws,
regulations and institutions to reach a high level of transparency in economic dealings …

The study of urban informality has exploded since Keith Hart theorized the term the 'informal
sector.'This explosion has coincided with a growing interest among urban scholars who train …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to suggest that informal practices and institutions of
post-Soviet countries differ from informality in other post-socialist regions and, therefore …

Informality is growing in a context of increasing inequity, and in many places becoming the
norm. However, despite decades of studies and interventions,'recognising informality'is still …