Articles State Theory from the Street Altar: The Muscles, the Saint and the Amparo (JulieAnne Boudreau) 'The City of Our Dream': Owambe Urbanism and Lowincome Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria (Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin) Governmentality and Spatial Strategies: Towards Formalization of Street Vendors in Guangzhou, China (Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Yang Wang) Uncertainty and the Governance of Street Vending: A Critical Comparison Across the North/South Divide (Jennifer Lee Tucker, Ryan Thomas Devlin) Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK (Peter Rodgers, Muhammad Shehryar Shahid, Colin C. Williams) The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy (Francesco Chiodelli) Displacing Informality: Rights and Legitimacy in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Mara Nogueira) Weird Exoskeletons: Propositional Politics and the Making of Home in Underground Bucharest (Michele Lancione) Interventions Urban Informality and the State: Geographical Translations and Conceptual Alliances (Christian G. Haid, Hanna Hilbrandt) The Myth of Formality in the Global North: InformalityasInnovation in Dutch Governance (Rivke Jaffe, Martijn Koster) Informality as Structure or Agency? Exploring Shed Housing in the UK as Informal Practice (Melanie Lombard) Sovereignty Beyond the State: Exception and Informality in a Western European City (Giovanni Picker) Juggling Legitimacies: Informal Places for Burials and Worship in Hong Kong (Josefine Fokdal) Rule of Law and RulesLawyering: Legal Corruption and 'Reprivatization Business' in Warsaw (Joanna Kusiak) Informalization of the State: Reflections from an Urban World of Translations (JulieAnne Boudreau) Book Reviews Richard Sennett 2018: Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City. London: Penguin Books (Robert Beauregard) Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (eds.) 2018: The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press (Laura Kemmer) Erik Swyngedouw 2018: Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a PostPolitical Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Jenny Mcarthur) Barbara Schönig and Sebastian Schipper (eds.) 2016: Urban Austerity: Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe.
Berlin: Theater der Zeit (Camerin Federico) Giovanni Picker 2017: Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe. Abingdon: Routledge--Advances in Sociology Series (Ali Madanipour) Andrew J. Diamond 2017: Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (Larry Bennett) Tim Bunnell and Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.) 2018: Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. Berlin: Jovis (Monika Grubbauer).