Lakshmi Priya Rajendran is Associate Professor in Environmental and Spatial Equity, Bartlett School of Architecture, The Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London (UCL), UK.Nezhapi-Dellé Odeleye is Associate Professor in Urban Design & Planning, and MSc Planning Course Director, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Chelmsford, UK.Aysegul Can is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Regional Studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

• List of Figures. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Foreword By Nezar AlSayyad. 1 Informality, resilience, and dialogue: Towards an alternative southern framework. PART 1 North-South Relations. 2 A marginalised spatial structure in Melbourne’s public housing estates: Evaluating public spaces, infrastructure, and citizen participation. 3 Accessing the city via informal urbanism: Kampungs, multiculturalism, and kebabs. 4 Reporting from the front: How socio-economic nonconformities revolutionise architecture as a political act. 5 Re-conceptualising the relationship between informalities, livelihoods, and governance towardsurban resilience. PART 2 Grassroots. 6 "Never let a good crisis go to waste": Lessons on dialogical transformations of public agency and space. 7 Havana’s informal settlements: Strengthening resilience through grassroots infrastructures. 8 Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: The case of Guernica land reappropriation. PART 3 Institutional Strategies Professional Alliances. 9 Resilience to colonial modernity: Shaping slum rehabilitations in Pune, India. 10 Urban informality in the making: Public actors’ spatial strategies in Gimpo, South Korea. 11 Architecture of engagement: Site, action, and possibilities for reinvention. 12 Revisiting social resilience in informal settlements: The strength and the limits of Paraisópolis community action during the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo. 13 Conceptual implications: An emerging "urban informality dialogical framework"? Index.

Lakshmi Priya Rajendran is Associate Professor in Environmental and Spatial Equity, Bartlett School of Architecture, The Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London (UCL), UK.Nezhapi-Dellé Odeleye is Associate Professor in Urban Design & Planning, and MSc Planning Course Director, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Chelmsford, UK.Aysegul Can is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Regional Studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

• List of Figures. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Foreword By Nezar AlSayyad. 1 Informality, resilience, and dialogue: Towards an alternative southern framework. PART 1 North-South Relations. 2 A marginalised spatial structure in Melbourne’s public housing estates: Evaluating public spaces, infrastructure, and citizen participation. 3 Accessing the city via informal urbanism: Kampungs, multiculturalism, and kebabs. 4 Reporting from the front: How socio-economic nonconformities revolutionise architecture as a political act. 5 Re-conceptualising the relationship between informalities, livelihoods, and governance towardsurban resilience. PART 2 Grassroots. 6 "Never let a good crisis go to waste": Lessons on dialogical transformations of public agency and space. 7 Havana’s informal settlements: Strengthening resilience through grassroots infrastructures. 8 Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: The case of Guernica land reappropriation. PART 3 Institutional Strategies Professional Alliances. 9 Resilience to colonial modernity: Shaping slum rehabilitations in Pune, India. 10 Urban informality in the making: Public actors’ spatial strategies in Gimpo, South Korea. 11 Architecture of engagement: Site, action, and possibilities for reinvention. 12 Revisiting social resilience in informal settlements: The strength and the limits of Paraisópolis community action during the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo. 13 Conceptual implications: An emerging "urban informality dialogical framework"? Index.

Lakshmi Priya Rajendran is Associate Professor in Environmental and Spatial Equity, Bartlett School of Architecture, The Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London (UCL), UK.Nezhapi-Dellé Odeleye is Associate Professor in Urban Design & Planning, and MSc Planning Course Director, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Chelmsford, UK.Aysegul Can is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Regional Studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

• List of Figures. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Foreword By Nezar AlSayyad. 1 Informality, resilience, and dialogue: Towards an alternative southern framework. PART 1 North-South Relations. 2 A marginalised spatial structure in Melbourne’s public housing estates: Evaluating public spaces, infrastructure, and citizen participation. 3 Accessing the city via informal urbanism: Kampungs, multiculturalism, and kebabs. 4 Reporting from the front: How socio-economic nonconformities revolutionise architecture as a political act. 5 Re-conceptualising the relationship between informalities, livelihoods, and governance towardsurban resilience. PART 2 Grassroots. 6 "Never let a good crisis go to waste": Lessons on dialogical transformations of public agency and space. 7 Havana’s informal settlements: Strengthening resilience through grassroots infrastructures. 8 Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: The case of Guernica land reappropriation. PART 3 Institutional Strategies Professional Alliances. 9 Resilience to colonial modernity: Shaping slum rehabilitations in Pune, India. 10 Urban informality in the making: Public actors’ spatial strategies in Gimpo, South Korea. 11 Architecture of engagement: Site, action, and possibilities for reinvention. 12 Revisiting social resilience in informal settlements: The strength and the limits of Paraisópolis community action during the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo. 13 Conceptual implications: An emerging "urban informality dialogical framework"? Index.