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New book chapter on the urban form of informal settlements in the Balkans, by Dorina Pojani

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This chapter analyzes the urban form of informal settlements in the Western Balkans. Informal housing is now a permanent fixture of the urban landscape in this region. Given the widespread and increasing scale of informal settlements, it is important to record their spatial qualities and compare them to informal settlements elsewhere. A five-point framework is employed, which considers the context in which informality takes place; the settlement itself; the houses contained therein; the dwellers of those houses; and the process through which a settlement is originally formed and then transformed over time.

  • Title: Urban form of informal settlements in the Western Balkans
  • Author: Dorina Pojani
  • Book: Informality through Sustainability
  • Editors: Antonino Di Raimo, Steffen Lehmann, Alessandro Melis
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Chapter: 18, pp. 277-292
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429331701-18

The e-book is already available for purchase or rent. Preorder you print copy here: www.routledge.com/Informality-through-Sustainability-Urban-Informality-Now/Raimo-Lehmann-Melis/p/book/9780367354770