Informality and the City Theories, Actions and Interventions
This book advances the agenda of informality as a transnational phenomenon, recognizing that contemporary urban and regional challenges need to be addressed at both local and global levels. This project may be considered a call for action. Its urgency derives from the impact of the pandemic combined...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Obscured innovations? Inventiveness in collective infrastructure management in Accra, Ghana
- The inclusion of “unequals:” Hotspot network strategy for a metropolitan agricultural revolution eluding informality
- Towards an architecture of civil disobedience in the upgrading of informal settlements
- Seeking disciplinary relevance in the informal city: Rebuilding architectural practice through community engagement
- Ponte city: An architecture of Utopia, informality, and rebirth
- Urban housing in Nairobi: Expectations and realities of densification in the middle- and low-income sectors
- Afterword
- Villa 31: Regeneration as a consequence of social urbanism
- El Amate in Guatemala City: An urban intervention
- Cuba’s informal gardens: Situating state support and public participation
- Urban permeability in Medellin: Case studies of Santo Domingo Savio and el Poblado
- Hopeful Rebar: Leveraging informality in architecture and urban design education
- Part 3: US–Mexico borderlands
- Lesson of hope: A case study on self-built homes in the informal neighborhoods of Tijuana
- Informality in South Texas: Understanding the evolution of Colonias in el Cenizo and the Rio Bravo
- Stigmas of informality: Disaster recovery and reconstruction in South Texas Colonias
- Quasi-informality on the border: The economic and socio-spatial dimensions of Latino marketplaces
- Houston, informal city
- Tanks, wells, tacos, and pitches
- Understanding informal housing in the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Latin American informal settlements
- Part 4: Asia
- Understanding ‘free-form’ micro-morphology in informal settlements
- Informality and the production of publicness in India
- Desperate city builders
- (In)formal land delivery processes: Relational perspectives on squatter settlements in Kathmandu
- Meeting unmet expectations revisited: Environmental management in Indonesian urban Kampungs after 30 years
- Urban informality tactics through layers of socio-spatial connectivity
- Carnival nonmovements and the repoliticization of urban space in Yazd, Iran
- Popup cities: Refugee camps between transience and resilience
- Leveraging rural urbanisms: Design at the intersection of formality and informality in Xixinan, China
- Part 5: Africa
- Towards sustainable interventions in unplanned communities: Adapting the urban nexus approach to the Greater Cairo Region
- Power relations and the influence of cultural factors in Cairo’s Ashwa’eyat informal settlements
- Introduction
- Part 1: Informalities – An overview
- Everything but housing
- Room by room: An exploration of the house
- Tactical appropriations in the urban realm: Informal practices and re-inventions in the contemporary city
- Milan potential city: Informality and resilience in times of crisis
- The mathematics of an ideal village
- Assembling informal urbanism
- Informalizing Yugoslavia
- Micro-informalities: Spatial appropriations in the Covid-19 Era
- Part 2: Latin America
- Red and Green: Towards a new framework of civilized coexistence
- No time to lose: Fostering the predominantly informal city in Latin America
- Exploring critical urbanities: A knowledge co-transfer approach for fragmented cities in water landscapes
- The practice of listening: Community learning towards a social architecture
- The limits of urban design in the slum-upgrading process: The case of Parque Fernanda I in São Paulo, Brazil