Informal Market Worlds The Architecture of Economic Pressure

The essays in the reader debate the scope of informality for generating economic, social and political change. From discussing the conceptual challenges behind the development of a new political economy based on the philosophical, legal, and social architecture of 'other markets' to exploring how changing global relations are already initiating new forms of urban practice, these analyses provide a thorough understanding of what is at stake in the new geography of Informal Market Worlds. With contributions by Teddy Cruz, Keith Hart, Jiang Jun, Lawrence Liang, MAP Office, Vyjayanthi Rao, Ananya Roy, Saskia Sassen, AbdouMaliq Simone, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ignacio Valero, Matias Viegener, and others. The accompanying atlas brings together more than 80 case studies on the spatial and visual culture of informal markets from around the world.