Planning And Design For Future Informal Settlements
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| Author | : David Gouverneur |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2014-08-13 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1317658930 |
This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution of future informal cities, planners must consider the same issues that are paramount in formal urban developments, such as provision of: balanced land uses energy efficiency and mobility water management and food sufficiency governance and community participation productivity and competitiveness identity and sense of place Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements makes a call for responsible action to address the urban challenges of the developing world, suggesting that the vitality of informality, coupled with spatial design and good management, can support the efficient use of resources in better places to live. The book analyses the strengths and weaknesses of informal urbanism and the challenges faced by the fast growing cities of the developing world. Through case studies, it demonstrates the contributions and limitations of different attempts to plan ahead for urban growth, from the creation of formal housing and urban infrastructures for self-built dwellings to the improvement of existing informal settlements. It provides a robust framework for planners and designers, policy-makers, NGOs and local governments working to improve living conditions in developing cities.
| Author | : David Gouverneur |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2014-08-13 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1317658922 |
This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution of future informal cities, planners must consider the same issues that are paramount in formal urban developments, such as provision of: balanced land uses energy efficiency and mobility water management and food sufficiency governance and community participation productivity and competitiveness identity and sense of place Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements makes a call for responsible action to address the urban challenges of the developing world, suggesting that the vitality of informality, coupled with spatial design and good management, can support the efficient use of resources in better places to live. The book analyses the strengths and weaknesses of informal urbanism and the challenges faced by the fast growing cities of the developing world. Through case studies, it demonstrates the contributions and limitations of different attempts to plan ahead for urban growth, from the creation of formal housing and urban infrastructures for self-built dwellings to the improvement of existing informal settlements. It provides a robust framework for planners and designers, policy-makers, NGOs and local governments working to improve living conditions in developing cities.
| Author | : Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2020-09-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9811373078 |
This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth’s tropical region. The book presents a study on regeneration experiences in Asia and Latin America and it identifies important points of connection and similarities between the two cases, while also determining that, compared to Asia, informality in Latin America is in its ‘second generation.’
| Author | : Kim Dovey |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2023-10-05 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1350295043 |
Informal settlements and slums are the most pervasive modes of urbanization on the planet, housing up to 2 billion people and absorbing most rural-to-urban migration worldwide. This presents architects, urban planners, and everyone working to improve the lives of the world's urban poor, with a uniquely complex and urgent challenge. Featuring 51 contemporary case studies of informal settlements from over 30 cities across the Global South, the Atlas of Informal Settlement is the first book to map the processes by which informal settlements and slums grow and develop. Each case study uses maps and aerial photographs to examine the key stages of development, while accompanying texts outline the impact of environmental, social, economic and political factors – ultimately revealing the hidden rules and logics embodied in informal settlements worldwide. As the focus of sustainable urban development shifts towards the upgrade of slums through community collaboration, it has become vital to understand how such places develop. The Atlas of Informal Settlement provides key insights, enabling designers and planners to better harness the positive capacities of informal production. The book is also interspersed with short chapters introducing key theoretical concepts – the issues and complexities at stake when thinking about informal settlements – making this book essential reading for all students, academics, and professionals working in informal settlement contexts, from architects and urban designers to NGOs, policy-makers, and community activists.
| Author | : Antonino Di Raimo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2020-12-30 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1000335755 |
Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The book opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal settlements or to view them as ‘problems’ to be solved. It comes at a time when common notions of ‘informality’ are being increasingly challenged. In 25 chapters, the book presents contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical or practical work addresses informality and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and architectural education. Whilst previous studies on informal settlements have mainly focused on cases in developing countries, approaching the topic through social, cultural and material dimensions, the book explores the concept across a range of contexts, including former Communist countries and those in the so-called Global North. Contributions also explore understandings of informality at various scalar levels – region, precinct, neighbourhood and individual building. Thus, this work helps reposition informality as a relational concept at various scales of urbanisation. This book will be of great benefit to planners, architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the interplay between informality and sustainability.
| Author | : Udo Grashoff |
| Publisher | : UCL Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2020-02-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1787355217 |
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.
| Author | : Michael Addaney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2021-12-31 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1000468151 |
Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa. This book addresses topics including challenges to spatial urban development, how spatial planning is delivered, how different urbanisation variables influence the development of different forms of urban systems and settlements in Africa, how city authorities could use old and new methods of land administration to produce sustainable urban spaces in Africa, and the role of local activism is causing important changes in the built environment. Chapters are written by a diverse range of African scholars and practitioners in urban planning and policy design, environmental science and policy, sociology, agriculture, natural resources management, environmental law, and politics. Urban Africa has huge resource potential – both human and natural resources – that can stimulate sustainable development when effectively harnessed. Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides support for the SDGs in urban Africa and will be of interest to students and researchers, professionals and policymakers, and readers of urban studies, spatial planning, geography, governance, and other social sciences.
| Author | : Cesar Gabriel Acosta |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Youth in informal settlements are highly vulnerable to poverty, environmental hazards and disasters, and a range of health risks. Yet young residents in these communities are also one of the least represented populations in planning and community development processes. This report seeks to answer how planners can design participatory processes for informal settlement upgrading projects that involve youth in meaningful ways in ongoing community development. Insights from past research from informal settlements across the western hemisphere are used to delineate the critical role youth can play in engaging in community building projects and communicating critical needs to the broader community and to public officials. Additionally, I develop a case study of young residents launching a youth organization in an informal settlement in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. In this case, performative ethnography was used as a key outreach tool that provided insights about what planners need to understand about youth and their motivations in order to engage them in community development projects. The review and case study also detail the potential benefits of bringing youth perspectives into the planning and decision making process for upgrading projects in informal communities. The youth engagement process in the Los Platanitos project illustrates that that art and performativity were a successful means of drawing youth together and were a powerful tool that allowed young residents to articulate their visions for the future of their community and the challenges it currently faced. The project further demonstrated that bringing in outside youth groups to help form the youth organization was critical because Los Platanitos youth had no spaces or prior experiences supporting collective activity. Experienced youth leaders from outside the community were instrumental in helping retain interest within the youth group and in fostering continued participation and activities. Lastly we learned that for youth themselves, organizing and participating in the community planning process gave them a new sense of confidence in their ability to affect their community and expand their own capacities and skills in organizing and goal setting.
| Author | : Mahyar Arefi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2018-06-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3319901311 |
Who shapes our cities? In an age of increasing urban pluralism, globalization and immigration, decreasing public budgets, and an ongoing crisis of authority among designers and planners, the urban environment is shaped by a number of non-traditional stakeholders. The book surveys the kaleidoscope of views on the agency of urbanism, providing an overview of the various scholarly debates and territories that pertain to bottom-up efforts such as everyday urbanism, DIY urbanism, guerilla urbanism, tactical urbanism, and lean urbanism. Uniquely, this books seeks connections between the various movements by curating a range of views on the past, present, and future of bottom-up urbanism. The contributors also connect the recent trend of bottom-up efforts in the West with urban informality in the Global South, drawing parallels and finding contrast between social and institutional structures across the globe. The book appeals to urbanists in the widest sense of the word: those who shape, study, and improve our urban spaces.
| Author | : Jeffrey Hou |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2014-10-10 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1317619927 |
After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today’s cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The contributions inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers. Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these contributions written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city.
