ABSTRACT
The enormous transformations of the built environment and the enhanced possibilities of consumption that have marked even some of the most marginal of the world's cities should not detract from acknowledging just how dependent the majority of the urban residents of the South are on constantly putting together some workable form of income and inhabitation. The makeshift character of much of what this majority does is quite literally 'make'+'shift'. This chapter considers the various ways in which the notion of the make+shift shows up and operates in urban conditions that have substantially constrained opportunities for the elaboration of residential and economic opportunities on the part of the urban majority in cities of the South. Rehabilitation and retrofitting of spatial assets, local environmental and community management, and various forms of service provision are areas to be developed.
