Informal Urbanism Webinar #1 / Kurt Iveson: Elite Informality in Action
Channel: Tanzil Shafique
Date: 2020-10-07

KURT IVESON, University of Sydney                                  
Title: Elite Informality in action: the governance of graffiti in Sydney

Keynote presented at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub Webinar Series 2020, University of Melbourne 
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About this lecture:
Discussions of urban informality have increasingly drawn attention to various ways in which it is deployed by elite, as well as marginalised, urban actors. This presentation will give an account of elite informality in action, drawing on research into the governance of graffiti in Sydney. While attempts to either erase graffiti or give it a proper place could be seen as efforts to assert a formal order against the informal appropriation of space by graffiti artists, in fact the authority of urban authorities is frequently enacted through informal practices that themselves seek to evade or work around the rules and the law.