The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization

This book explores the mutual relationship between the struggle for political inclusion and processes of informal urbanisation in different socio-political and cultural settings. It investigates the theme of democratisation and political emancipation in relation to processes of informal urbanisation.

It seeks to raise public awareness of the challenges of informal urbanisation and its relationship with processes of democratisation and struggles for rights and citizenship, provide policymakers, scholars and the public with broad comparative material, and  to provide teachers and students in different socio-political contexts with a handbook on issues of informal urbanisation.