Informality and the city : theories, actions and interventions / Gregory Marinic, Pablo Meninato, editors.
Marinic, Gregory, editor.; Meninato, Pablo, editor.
2022
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Title Informality and the city : theories, actions and interventions / Gregory Marinic, Pablo Meninato, editors.
ISBN 9783030999261 (electronic bk.)
3030999262 (electronic bk.)
9783030999254
3030999254
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99926-1
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 654 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-99926-1 doi
Call Number HT151
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76
Summary 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 with the effects of climate change in informal settlements around the world. While the notion of "the informal" is usually associated with the analysis and interventions in informal settlements, this book expands the concept of informality to acknowledge its interdisciplinary parameters. The book is geographically organized into five sections. The first part provides a conceptual overview of the notion of "the informal," serving as an introduction and reflection on the subject. The following sections are dedicated to the principal regions of the Global SouthLatin America, USMexico Borderlands, Asia, and Africawhile considering the interconnections and correspondences between urbanism in the Global South and the Global North. This book offers a critical introduction to groundbreaking theories and design practices of informality in the built environment. It provides essential reading for scholars, professionals, and students in urban studies, architecture, city planning, urban geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, and the arts. As a critical survey of informality, the book examines history, theory, and production across a range of informal practices and phenomena in urbanism, architecture, activism, and participatory design. Authored by a diverse and international cohort of leading educators, theorists, and practitioners, 45 chapters refine and expand the discourse surrounding informal cities.
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Meninato, Pablo, editor.
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Intro
Foreword
Introduction
Contents
Acknowledgements
Editors and Contributors
Part I Informalities-An Overview
1 Everything but Housing
Under Turner's Shadow
Housing, Definitively Unfinished
Sidelining Housing: The Cases of Rio de Janeiro and Medellín
Conclusion
2 Room by Room: An Exploration of the House
A Brief History of a Global Crisis
The Case of Mexico and Minimums
Rethinking the House
Bedroom
Kitchen/Dining
Bathroom
Garden/Terrace
Looking Forward

3 Tactical Appropriations in the Urban Realm: Informal Practices and Reinventions in the Contemporary City
4 Milan Potential City: Informality and Resilience in Times of Crisis
The Informal City in Times of Opportunity
The Informal City in Times of Crises
The Affordance of Major Disused Areas
The Affordance of Neighborhood Public Spaces
Tales of a Railway Yard
Tales of a Square
Conclusion
5 The Mathematics of an Ideal Village
6 Assembling Informal Urbanism
Forms of Urban Informality
Emerging Research Pathways
Assemblage Thinking as a Theoretical Lens

9 Red and Green: Toward a New Framework of Civilized Coexistence
Socio-spatial Conglomerates
The Problem with Interpretation
Mottled
Inequalities
Strategies and Tactics
Slums
Collective momentum
Malaise of the Present Moment of Civilization
Urbanism, Housing, and Society
Reflection
10 No Time to Lose: Fostering the Predominantly Informal City in Latin America
The Challenge Ahead
The Informal Armatures Approach (IAA)
Assembling Public Land
Multi-Scalar Armatures: A System of Design Components
Corridors
Patches
Stewards

Additional Contributions of the IAA
Some Obstacles
11 Exploring Critical Urbanities: A Knowledge Co-Transfer Approach for Fragmented Cities in Water Landscapes
Local Elements as Conditioning Factors
Co-create and Co-transfer Knowledge
Conclusion
12 The Practice of Listening: Community Learning Toward a Social Architecture
13 The Limits of Urban Design in Slum Upgrading Process: The Case of Parque Fernanda I, São Paulo, Brazil
Parque Fernanda I: The Logic of the Slums and the Regulatory Logic of the State
Green Path: Different Levels of Appropriation for Each Solution

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