INFORMAL CITY-My Reflection
Suggestive of their name, informal cities are undoubtedly big areas, inhabited by citizens of the country that have an anonymous say in the politico set up yet are not publicly recognized as strategically important in the national franchisee, or as home to a famous community of workers that display remarkable professional or creative skills. Or which contribute heavily to the exchequer by way of income tax or source or natural revenue.
Such cities ‘enjoy’ an ignoble and anonymous existence until they are catapulted to fame by some ‘misadventure’ or act of greatness. Outside the national curriculum, such communities function on a self-reliant note much like the ancient communities without the help of a central governing body. Social workers, artists, designers often try to use such communities as a source or anthropological study perhaps because of their untouched by modernity experiences. Though born out of a survival instinct such cities within cities tend to be palpable and throbbing relentlessly despite a side-lined existence. It serves more like an alternative respite from the over populous cities loaded with urbanization, industrialisation and waning culture. Such communities develop their own ways of creative and occupational articulation without intentional efforts….it’s a natural and adaptive inhabitation of people who avoid being herded in big cities where individuality takes a back seat. Untouched by heavy regulations and rule and invisible governance such communities flourish in its informal and unregulated structure, with a more easy way of life to boast. Such cities exist concentrically to big cities often complimenting their effort ceaselessly and unknowingly.
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