03112nam a22003377a 4500 pucpr 20241126155408.0 140616s2014 maua i 001 0 eng 2013035292 9780262027076 hardcover : alk. paper 9780262525787 pbk : alk. paper pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET HD2346.U5 I554 2014 330 23 The informal American City : beyond taco trucks and day labor. / edited by Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. txt Cambridge, Massachusetts : London, England : The MIT Press , 2014. 325 p. ill. ; 23cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmeadiaded n rdacarrier volume nc Urban and industrial environments Includes index. Contents : Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou Sideris 1 -- Part I Settings : 1 The Garage Sale as Informal Economy and Transformative Urbanism Margaret Crawford 21 -- 2 Outlaw In Laws : Informal Second Units and the Stealth Reinvention of Stealth Reinvention of Single Family Housing 39 -- 3 The Reproduction of Informality in Low Income Self Help Housing Communities Peter M. Ward 59 -- 4 Making and Supporting Community Gardens as Informal Urban Landscapes Jeffrey Hou 79 -- 5 ''This Is My Front Yard!'' Claims and Informal Property Rights on Sidewalks Anastasia Loukaitou Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht 97 -- 6 Learning from the Margin : Placemaking Tactics Nabil Kamel 119 -- 7 Surviving in America's Playground : Informal Sustenance Strategies among the Chronically Unhoused Jacob Avery 137 -- Part II : 8 The Irreconcilable Tension between Dwelling in Public and the Regulatory State Renia Ehrenfeucht and Anastasia Loukaitou Sideris 155 -- 9 Leraning form Informal Practices : Implications for Urban Design Michael Rios 173 -- 10 Formalizing City Farms : Conflict and Conciliation Matt Covert and Alfonso Morales 193 -- 11 A More Delicious City : How to Legalize Street Food Mark Vallianatos 209 -- 12 Crystals, Mud, and Space : Street Vending Informality Gregg Kettles 227 -- 13 ''Keep Your Wheels On'' : Mediating Informality in the Food Cart Industry Ginny Browne, Will Dominie, and Kate Mayerson 243 -- 14 Regulating Day Labor : Worker Centers and Organizing in the Informal Economy Abel Valenzuela Jr. 261 -- 15 Informal Parking Markets : Turning Problems into Solutions Donald Shoup 277 -- Conclusion : Deepening the Understanding of Informal Urbanism Anastasia Loukaitou Sideris and Vinit Mukhija -- Contributors 305 -- Index 311 -- Series List -- Informal sector Economics United States. 114572 Local Cities and towns United States Social conditions. 73674 Local Social interaction United States. 171784 Local Mukhija, Vinit, 256180 Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, 247864 lcc 6 HD2346.U5 General I554 2014 244084 244084 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2014-02-06 Amazon 39.43 524457 0 General HD2346.U5 I554 2014 91000000044677 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 49.43 2014-02-06 6