The Architecture of Economic Pressure
ed. by Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer ; contributing bys Emanuel Admassu, Juan Manuel Arbona, Niko Besnier [...et a.]
- Author(s)
- Emanuel Admassu, Juan Manuel Arbona, Niko Besnier, …[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer
- Publication, year
- Rotterdam : NAI010 Publishers, 2015
- Scope
- 512 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789462081949
Atlas with 72 case studies – from Kabul’s post-confl ict Bush Bazaar to Arizona’s Snow Birds hipster markets. Shadow economies account for half of the world’s economic activities. In countries such as Bolivia, Nigeria, India and the Philippines, almost 80 per cent of the non-agricultural working population work in the informal economy. Informal markets arise on the fault lines inscribed by global alliances of money and power: wars and humanitarian crises, national and infrastructural borders, the worldwide trade in waste and the marginal spaces of urban transformation. They act as globalization’s safety valve while also providing livelihoods for millions of people trading in the streets of cities around the world.
- Location
- Cabinet 32 - 5: Informeel gebruik van de stad
- Remarks
- Incl. author's Biographies.
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