TY - BOOK AU - Mukhija,Vinit AU - Loukaitou-Sideris,Anastasia TI - The informal American City: beyond taco trucks and day labor. T2 - Urban and industrial environments SN - 9780262027076 AV - HD2346.U5 I554 2014 U1 - 330 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England PB - The MIT Press KW - Informal sector Economics KW - United States KW - Local KW - Cities and towns KW - Social conditions KW - Social interaction N1 - 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 -- ER -