No. 27 (2024): Urbanistic approaches to (in)formal urbanisation

This issue of the journal Ciudades aims to deconstruct the notion of informality, which has been used to designate what is unplanned or not subject to the normativity of public institutions, and which, as a consequence, has ended up constituting a homogenising and universalist conception of the ‘unplanned’. In this way, the aim is to overcome the rigid and static planned/unplanned (or formal/informal) dominant binomial, and to construct new categories that express the diversity of socio-historical, political and cultural conditions as essential parameters of the development of cities and that liberate urban analysis from reductionist schemes of thought.