Changing Cities: Climate, Youth, and Land Markets in Urban Areas

The success of the first competition led the partners to expand the competition in the next year to include the publica- tion of top papers submitted in 2011. [...] Focusing on Kibera, the home of 2.5 million slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya, Liza Cirolia’s chapter highlights the challenges of applying “Western logics of the law and markets” to the “politics of informality and identity” that are prevalent in informal settlements. [...] Consequently, this process increases local 2 In referencing the contrasts between the pre-reform and the reform eras, I have chosen to focus more on the literature that attends to the latter, for the sake of space. [...] 6 The discussions of the cities are ordered according to their levels of postindustrialization, with Shanghai being the highest and Baoding the lowest among the five. [...] In terms of employment op- portunities, local residents who used to work in the hundreds of factories in the area (now also displaced) are unlikely to have the skills and credentials required by the multinational corporations that will soon occupy the area.