Polarizing informality: Processual thinking, materiality and the emerging middle-class informality in Taipei.
In recent debates, it has been argued that urban informality is a way of living. It is the consequence of people negotiating with building regulations, limited resources and their living environments. However, as some researchers have pointed out before, informality is not just the experience of sub...
| Publicado en: | Environment & Planning A Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 1225 - 1242 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2019
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