Spatial justice and informal settlements

'Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements: Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medell�in' links the discourses of informal urbanism and spatial justice in the context of public space-based governmental programmes to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America. It argues for the imp...

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Main Author: Schwab, Eva
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald Publishing Limited 2018
Series:Emerald points
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a 'Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements: Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medell�in' links the discourses of informal urbanism and spatial justice in the context of public space-based governmental programmes to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America. It argues for the importance of combining measures for equity and empowerment with positive recognition, i.e. recognition which is based on valuing the social and material achievements of the settlers as a contribution to urban life and culture in its own right. It presents an inquiry into how public open spaces serve the goal of increasing spatial justice and the quality of life in informal settlements. It provides an in-depth study of the Integral Urban Project (Proyecto Urbano Integral/PUI in Spanish) in Comuna 13, a low-income settlement in Medell�in, Colombia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork to understand people's everyday spaces and socio-spatial practices, the book assesses the design, production, use, and management of some of the public open spaces established under the PUI programme. It thus also offers an account of the diversity of everyday open spaces and landscapes in this informal settlement. This book is a valuable contribution to the field of open spaces in informal settlements and spatial justice, especially for scholars, researchers, and graduate students with an interest in urban development and upgrading and related socio-spatial issues in Latin America