The Informal City

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The Informal City is written by Michel S. Laguerre and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349235407 (ISBN 10) and 9781349235407 (ISBN 13).

In this book, Michel S.Laguerre argues that there exists an informal city located just beneath and in the interstices of the formal city. The metaphor is not geographical, but rather structural and hermeneutical. This is the city where manoeuvres that cannot be done publicly, legally, ethically or otherwise are performed. The author shows with illustrative data drawn from the American urban experience - the San Francisco-Oakland Metropolitan area - why and how the informal city must be seen as the hidden dimension of the formal city.