Tags: Informal cities, Urban development, Futures, Global South

The information contained in this paper is based on a literature review, horizon scan, and interviews with the Informal City Dialogues Reference Group Members and more than a dozen other experts from around the world, as well as from insights gained from the Reference Group Meeting on Thursday, 29 November 2012 in New York City. It is intended to be a sketch of the conceptual terrain around informality and a stimulus for discussion to explore informality further, rather than a detailed technical review. During the course of the project, this paper will be considered a “living draft” and its findings shall be further developed, locally contextualized, and refined with insights from local research and workshops in each city.

Informal cities dialogues - final briefing-paper.pdf