Urban informality and the built environment infrastructure, exchange and image

Urban Informality and the Built Environment demonstrates the value of greater and more diverse forms of engagement of built environment disciplines in what constitutes urban informality and its politics. It brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in...

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Language:English
Published: [S.l.] UCL PRESS 2024, 2024
Series:Fringe
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505 0 |a 1 Introduction: foregrounding the built environment -- 2 Informality and infrastructure -- 3 Informalities of exchange -- 4 The image of informal settlements -- 5 The role of change maker painters: graffiti and street art in Accra, Ghana -- 6 Informal everyday water infrastructures in the in-between territories of Galicia -- 7 A morphogenetic approach to informality: the case of post-socialist Tirana -- 8 Informal structures of welfare: emerging spaces of social reproduction in Athens -- 9 Rhythmanalysis as exploration of urban informality in Havana, Cuba -- 10 The death and life of Jian-Cheng Circle: a negative lesson to the built informality of urban places -11 Informality as pedagogy: collective design in the Mariamma Nagar settlement -- 12 Informality as an urban trend in mainstream architectural publications -- 13 Conclusion: foregrounding positionality 
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520 |a Urban Informality and the Built Environment demonstrates the value of greater and more diverse forms of engagement of built environment disciplines in what constitutes urban informality and its politics. It brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in diverse contexts, drawing on recent research by architects, planners, political scientists, geographers and urban theorists. The book presents different case studies from multiple geographies, drawing attention to the need for studying urban informality in the Global North and Global South. The cases promote a cross-fertilization between disciplines, lenses, geographies and methodologies. They range from the creative place-making of street artists in Accra, to the morphological evolution of urban Tirana, urban agriculture in la Habana and social reproduction in Greece. Additional contributions highlight the cross-cutting themes of infrastructure, exchange and image. Urban Informality and the Built Environment introduces built environment disciplines to its constitutive roles in producing urban informality. It also tests a range of new methodologies to the study of urban informality, demonstrating the possibilities for new insights when building on the relational understanding of urban informality