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Mirroring Effects sounds out prevalent political and economic practices concerning environment-making in the contemporary world. The case studies unfold as real-life tales chronicling mutually reinforcing processes that bind urbanization to integrated world capitalism. Taken together, the tales narrate the ongoing restructuring of built and lived spaces in the diverse regions of what are generally referred to as the Global South and the Global North. Whereas the two parts of this volume are divided along this political and economic equator, the stories blur that very distinction, making it clear that the expansion of the free market has entangled developed as well as developing regions to the extent that such dichotomies no longer hold. The essays chart the course of capital-led development in the settings such as Addis Ababa, Mumbai, Cairo, São Paulo, Dubai, Berlin, Paris and Shanghai. This particular itinerary traces the changes that have taken place on the ground, physically and socially, and offers glimpses of where our geo-economic order is heading and what conditions will most likely ensue, for better or worse, given prevalent modes of territorial production. the stories told, if casually overheard, coudl just as easily be misconstrued as the stuff of incredible fables. But real they are.

Informalize! is the first book in the forthcoming Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form series developed at WERK 11, a research hub of the ETH Zurich bringing together the various fields that have an impact on today's urban conditions. Edited by Marc Angélil and Rainer Hehl, this collection of four essays presents a cross-section of urban informality drawing on broader theoretical frameworks as well as case studies from Casablanca, Belgrade, and the Global South. Reading the city of yesterday as the physical manifestation of the failure of the urban economy to meet the needs of a growing population, Informalize! turns to the city of today and tomorrow as the representation of a paradigmatic shift toward new social, political, and economic orders and ways of collecting and applying urban knowledge