Introduction Forms and Norms: Questioning Illegal Urban Housing in the Middle East

Myriam Ababsa (1) , Eric Denis (2) , Baudouin Dupret (3)

1 IFPO - Institut Français du Proche-Orient
2 PARIS
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

This volume aims at taking seriously and at describing two major transformations observed within the Arab world: firstly, the accelerated mutation of public policies towards neighbourhoods characterized as irregular or illegal; secondly, the claim that this mode of housing in metropolises constitutes the ordinary and majority condition. There is nothing specific or original in this statement. To some extent, the goal is even to stress the contrary, i.e. to account for the banality of this type of urban condition in this part of the world, together with its evolution.

Mots clés: housing; land tenure; cities; urban studies; praxeology; architectural forms; legal and customary norms; Middle East

Domaines: Sociologie

Myriam Ababsa, Eric Denis, Baudouin Dupret. Introduction Forms and Norms: Questioning Illegal Urban Housing in the Middle East. Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East: Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, The American University in Cairo Press, 2012. ⟨halshs-01573824⟩