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Informality and the City

Theories, Actions and Interventions
BuchGebunden
654 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am06.10.20221st ed. 2022
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.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextThis 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-99925-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum06.10.2022
Auflage1st ed. 2022
Seiten654 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXXIII, 654 p. 257 illus., 224 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.50483106

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.- Villa 31: Regeneration as a consequence of social urbanism.- El Amate inGuatemala 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.- 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.mehr

Autor

Gregory Marinic, Ph.D., is an architectural theorist, scholar, educator, and practitioner. He is an associate professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning SAID and Director of Urbania, a grant-funded research laboratory speculating on urban futures. His ongoing research examines cities in relation to obsolescence, informality, revitalization, adaptive reuse, publicness, and identity. Widely published in books and academic journals, his work seeks to advance critical discourse and interdisciplinary design practices that foster sustainability, resilience, and social justice.




Pablo Meninato, Ph.D., is an architect, architectural critic, and educator whose research focuses on the conception and development of the architectural project. He is an associate professor in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. His current research investigates how various contemporary architects are developing original urban design tactics that enhance the quality of life in informal settlements across Latin America. A native of Argentina, Meninato has taught and practiced architecture in Philadelphia, Buenos Aires, and Monterrey. He has been widely published in books and journals across a range of topics in architecture and urbanism.
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