Bidonvilles, favelas, baracche The political and administrative origins of the informal city, 19-20th century Genèse politique et administrative des catégories de la ville informelle, 19e-20e s. 3-4 juillet 2017 à Paris Today’s informal city constitutes an established research area in studies on the cities of the global South. Now often representing an overwhelming reality in many cities in these regions, this type of extension on the urban periphery nonetheless has forerunners in the 19th a...