The introduction to global informality will address the very basic of informal production energies. Informal housing solutions and informal economies owe their persistent existence not only to exogene forces, as to say the incapacity of formal provision, but also to its inner strength in flexibility and resource-optimization. Despite the apparent downside of informality towards health and environmental safety, there is much to learn from its creative and effectiveness. Therefore a journey through-out the world will help to illustrate the scope of urban informality and stimulate discussions how to use them for planning and design practices.

2. URBAN INFORMALITY

3. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.1 Nature
1.2 Culture
1.3 Characteristics
2. Formalizing informality
2.1 Historical Overview
2.2 Lessons learnt
2.3 Potential new ways
3. Concluding Remarks

4. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.1 Nature

5. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.1 Nature
Informal vs Formal
Nature vs Techne
Informality is hetero defined and needs formality for existence.
Formality has emerged out of necessity of survival and a wish to life
beyond subsistence.
Two moments of formality explosion: sedentism and industrial revolution

6. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.2 Culture

7. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.2 Culture
Informal Built-Environment
Informal Land markets
Informal Economy
Informal Organization

8. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

9. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

10. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

11. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

12. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

13. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

14. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

15. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

16. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

17. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

18. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

19. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

20. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.2 Culture
Informal Use
Informal Built-Environment
Informal Production
Informal Land markets
Informal Processes
Informal Economy
Informal Organization

21. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.2 Culture
Informal Use
Informal Built-Environment
Informal Production
Informal Land markets
Informal Processes
Informal Economy
Informal Organization
Informality as a Process

22. URBAN INFORMALITY From Migrant to Settler

23. URBAN INFORMALITY Informal Housing

24. URBAN INFORMALITY From Subsistence to Businesses

25. URBAN INFORMALITY Water

26. URBAN INFORMALITY Sanitation

27. URBAN INFORMALITY Electricity

28. URBAN INFORMALITY Transportation

29. URBAN INFORMALITY Garbage Collecting

30. URBAN INFORMALITY Food Production

31. URBAN INFORMALITY Sweat Shops

32. URBAN INFORMALITY Recycling

33. URBAN INFORMALITY Laundry

34. URBAN INFORMALITY Businesses

35. URBAN INFORMALITY Businesses

36. URBAN INFORMALITY From Profit Maximization to Illegality

37. URBAN ILLEGALITY Drugs

38. URBAN ILLEGALITY Ammunition

39. URBAN ILLEGALITY Human Trade

40. URBAN ILLEGALITY Human Trade

41. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.3 Characteristics

42. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.3 Characteristics
What informality is:
different from poverty
more than just illegal practices
The only sustainable way to address
greater than subsistence strategies development issues in the 21st century
Is not confined to the Developing World
Resource sensitive, cost efficient,
bottom-up, participatory, flexible
The most successful market for housing and
employment in the Developing World
The potential of informality

43. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
1.3 Characteristics
Potentials of informality
Affordable
Flexible
Resource sensitive
Irregular
Multi-agent
Inferior Quality
Commercialization – Professionalism
Illegality
Threats of informality

44. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Irregular

45. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Inferior Quality: Insanitation

46. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Inferior Quality: Hazardous

47. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Inferior Quality: Hazardous

48. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Inferior Quality: Hazardous

49. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Commercialization – Professionalism

50. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Multi-agent

51. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Resource sensitive

52. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Resource sensitive

53. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Flexible

54. URBAN INFORMALITY 1. What is urban informality?
Affordable

55. URBAN INFORMALITY 2. Formalizing informality

56. URBAN INFORMALITY 2. Formalizing informality
Thank you for your attention.
Anthony Fuchs
CCUC
A.fuchs@ccuc.nl
0621106620