Category: Informal

Temporary permanence?

1 September, 2009 (09:48) | Housing, Informal, New York City, Slums, Speculation | No comments

Here in the comfortable West, we think all our housing is formal, in contrast to that ‘informal’ housing they have in the global south – yet all around us, we tolerate permanent informality, because we think it temporary, as unwittingly revealed by this faintly touch-in-cheek Wall Street Journal article:
 

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