As result of a collaborative research project, this contribution introduces the concept of popular urbanization to describe a specific urbanization process based on collective initiatives, self‐organization and the activities of inhabitants. It discusses popular urbanization as an urban strategy through which an urban territory is produced, transformed and appropriated by the people. This concept results from a theoretically guided and empirically grounded comparison of Mexico City, Istanbul and Lagos. An important starting point for this new comparative conceptualization was the term urbanización popular, which is used widely in Latin America. In proposing the concept of popular urbanization for further examination, I seek to contribute to the collective development of a decentered vocabulary of urbanization.
Vortrag im Rahmen der online-Konferenz Latin American Urban Research in Dialogue: Urban Knowledge Production from the Region an der Hochschule Bremen vom 19. bis 20. Oktober 2020
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