Introduction: Informal Urbanism as History
Brodwyn Fischer and Charlotte Vorms

Part I: Law, Governance, and the Invention of Informality
1. Four Regimes of Informality: Legal Practices and Revolutionary Politics in Twentieth-Century Mexico City
Antonio Azuela and Emilio de Antuñano
2. From Insalubrious Housing to Unauthorized Neighborhoods: The Conceptualization of Urban Informality in Italy, 1880s–1960s
Francesco Bartolini
3. A Century of Governing with Informal Urbanization in Madrid, 1860s–1960s
Charlotte Vorms

Part II: Urban Informality and Political Struggle
4. “The Order Came from Above”: The Political and Ideological Foundations of Fascism’s Struggle against the Baracche in Rome
Luciano Villani
5. Carioca Favelas and the Catholic Church after World War II: The Case of the Fundação Leão XIII’s Interventions in Praia do Pinto
Rafael Soares Gonçalves
6. Democratizing the Republic by Instituting the Informal: Barrio Irregularity in Caracas and Venezuelan Democratization, 1941–1964
Serge Ollivier
7. The Invention of the Toma: Informality and Mobilization in Santiago de Chile, 1945–1957
Emanuel Giannotti and Boris Cofré Schmeisser

Part III: Race and Colonial Domination
8. Informality, Racialized Governance, and the Cidade Negra in Modern Brazil
Brodwyn Fischer
9. Bidonvilles in France: A New Term for an Old Phenomenon?
Françoise de Barros
10. Urban Risk? Constructing Shantytowns as a Problem of Colonial Governance in Algiers and Casablanca, 1919–1962
Jim House

Notes
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