Since the late 1970s, the term “colonias”(in English) has described low‐income, peri‐urban,
and rural subdivisions north of the US‐Mexico border. These communities are in arid and …

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

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia
was marked by the expansion of low-income" irregular" settlements that developed …

In the context of increasing urbanisation, growth of informal settlements and the urbanisation
of poverty, this article suggests a conceptual framework to link urban informal property …

Although the how's of the informal housing market in China has been discussed widely; the
answers remain conflicted. Using the theory of new institutional economics, this paper aims …

Data are presented from a 2007 restudy of some 300 low-income self-builder owner
households across eight settlements in Bogotá and Mexico City originally interviewed in the …

The expanding study of informal housing offers multiple-and often confusing-perspectives
on its emergence. The paper proposes an updated classification of the major perspectives …

Municipal underbounding is the systematic failure of cities to annex surrounding minority
communities. Recent analyses of the phenomenon in the United States have focused on …

Along the Texas border with Mexico, more than 400,000 people live in over 2,000 informal
self-help settlements known as colonias. These exceedingly low-income, largely Latino …

Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of
unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original …