This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban
informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the
Global South. The context of Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan-in the Middle
East- is the transregional focus of this book. In these contexts, the
book opens a new arena of academic discussion on the theory and practice
of urban informality.
Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in
Middle East Cities questions urban informality, "as a site of
transitions", interrelated and interlinked with urban sustainability
transitions in speedy changes in a given environment. The book presents
'urban informality sustainability transitions' regarding resilience and
adaptability that require shifts in urban systems. Shifts from a static
process to a dynamic process that eradicates the fragmentation between
the tensions, anxieties, and pressures of four modes of production,
reproduction, consumptions, and distribution of goods and services in
the city and its practices. Finally, through eleven chapters, the
concluding remarks explore to what extent and how can urban informality
transitions be sustainable.