GEOG 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Social Reproduction
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Urban informality is housing and work that is essentially unregulated, but typically permitted, by the state apparatus o o. Often being done where the state is lacking, e. g. housing. Favelas in latin america allowed to exist even though they are technically illegal because they fill a need that the state can"t take care of o. Urban informality is almost exclusively equated with urban poverty, especially in the global south o. Often associated with mega cities in the global south. This push and pull between peasants and the city has become very complicated. World class cities cannot exist without the slums. Yet the slums are portrayed as something to get rid of o. Slums perform the role of social reproduction in cities. People who work with the elderly, the nannies, the laundry, the food, etc. o. He hadn"t visited any of the places that he talked about, he was using oecd and un statistics to pull together his analysis.
