Highlights•The urban decision context is key to understanding climate information needs.•
Decentralization and devolution are needed for climate-sensitive decisions in cities.•Co …

Informal rental housing is growing rapidly in cities of the global South. Changing needs and
circumstances of diverse urban populations produce new forms of rental accommodation …

In this introduction to the special issue 'Transcending (in) formal urbanism'we outline the
important place that informal urbanism has acquired in urban theorising, and an agenda to …

In this article, we explore the notion of propositionality to advance southern urban
infrastructure debates towards more anticipatory forms of scholarship. By propositionality …

In this article we develop a novel analytical framework for situated studies of uneven peri‐
urbanisation that resist further dividing Marxist and Situated (Urban) Political Ecology. We …

This commentary to the special issue on 'Transcending (in) formal urbanism'reviews key
threads common across the issue and opens up questions as to the work that the informal …

Purpose This purpose of this paper is to explore creative forms of tourism in South African
townships. The developmental potential of slum tourism is contested. One challenge is to …

In this commentary piece, we are reminded that naming (in-formality) is an inherently
political act. Informality is discussed through a number of dimensions: conceptually in …

At the messy interfaces between partial networks, regular failures, and everyday 'gap filling',
a rich body of scholarship has emerged. Straddling anthropology, geography, and …

This paper historically situates and explores the strengths of multiscalar analysis, at a
moment when the term 'multiscalar'has been adopted by researchers within the intersecting …