Informal Housing in the Global North: Exploring Practices, Actors and Processes in a Transforming Housing...

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Jakub Galuszka

Informal Housing in the Global North

Exploring Practices, Actors and Processes in a Transforming Housing System

Jakub Galuszka

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English

Routledge
19 September 2025

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Homelessness; Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Series: Explorations in Housing Studies

Informal Housing in the Global North proposes analytical and conceptual approaches to investigate the progressing ‘informalisation’ of contemporary housing in the Global North and beyond.

Amidst the ongoing housing crisis, the reading of informalities in the so-called North has increasingly disrupted the conventional understanding of local cities as fully regulated, well-structured and formal. By juxtaposing contested, successful and ‘under- the- radar’ ordinary housing phenomena across various income levels, this volume seeks to unpack and document the embeddedness of informality in mid- and high-income cities. This investigation reveals the pervasive and hybrid nature of local housing systems, in which formal frameworks defining modes of utilising spaces and architectural design are continuously reinterpreted by users, public sector actors and market entities alike. It reflects on everyday housing pathways and the agency of those who, by preference or necessity, engage with solutions conventionally labelled as informal.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of housing studies, planning, architecture and urban sociology as well as practitioners working in the field of housing.

Edited by: Jakub Galuszka
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032645254
ISBN 10: 1032645253
Series: Explorations in Housing Studies
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 19 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jakub Galuszka is Junior Professor of Sustainable Cities and Climate Change at the HafenCity University Hamburg. His research focuses on housing, informality, co-production and urban sustainability. Currently, he leads two research projects: ‘Inconspicuous Transformations: the Socio-Spatial Reconfiguration of Formal Housing in Europe,’ funded by the DFG, and ‘Passive Solutions in Self-Build and Incremental Housing: Towards Inclusive Socio-Ecological Transformation in Rapidly Urbanising Areas,’ supported by the Volkswagen Foundation.