Occupancy Urbanism

Abstract

Abstract “Occupancy urbanism” is a way to understand the dynamic of cities' territorial and spatial conflicts as these shape economic and social relations. Land tenure is of central importance, as well as its institutional embedding. The conceptual premise draws on scholarship from legal pluralism that embeds law in society, contested ideas of property, and locates the urban within an idea of a heterogeneous state. This forms a critique of the excessive reliance on terms such as “slums,” master planning, informal sector, mafia, and speculation. The entry includes an account of changing contexts since the concept was first introduced and a critique of its interpretation in recent scholarship.

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