Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning

By A. Roy. 2005

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Getting soaked? Climate crisis, adaptation finance, and racialized austerity (2020, background): “…oriented toward a conjunctural method that looks for patterns and overlapping processes across north–south binaries rather than sees southern cities as failed models of northern examples (Chattopadhyay, 2012; Lawhon et al., 2016; Millington and Lawhon, 2019; Robinson, 2016; Roy, 2005, 2009, 2017).”
The urban informal economy, local inclusion and achieving a global green transformation (2016, background): “They also support an emerging post-colonial framework promoting a new epistemology of planning that is capable of engaging with informality as a dominate mode of urban development rather than as an unplannable ‘state of exception’ (Roy, 2005; for a review see Brenner & Schmid, 2015).”
Mapping the Invisible and Real "African" Economy: Urban E-Waste Circuitry (2012, background): “Informal work has expanded in scale and scope, so deeply transforming the urban economic structure of cities that there appears to be an emerging consensus that informalization is a mode of urbanization rather an exception (Hart, 1973; Owusu, 2001; Roy, 2005).”
Notes on a Southern urban practice (2019, neutral): “See reference 11, Roy (2005).”
Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism (2018, background): “As Roy (2005) has argued, for a pro-market governance informality is a mode of urbanisation.”