Urban Informality ─ Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

Architects, urban planners, geographers, and other social scientists some in academia and some in practice from the three regions explore informal housing and land markets in terms of liberalization and globalization, politics, and transnational interrogation. Some of the studies are expanded from presentations at a symposium in Berkeley, California in the spring of 2001. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ananya Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. Nezar AlSayyad is Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Lexington Books, 2002).