Informality and the city : theories, actions and interventions

Informality and the city : theories, actions and interventions / Gregory Marinic, Pablo Meninato, editors.

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...

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Other Authors: Marinic, Gregory (Editor), Meninato, Pablo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2022]
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
urban sociology.
Sociology, Urban
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Informalities-An Overview
  • Everything but Housing
  • Room by Room: An Exploration of the House
  • Tactical Appropriations in the Urban Realm: Informal Practices and Reinventions 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 II. Latin America
  • Red and Green: Toward 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 Toward a Social Architecture
  • The Limits of Urban Design in Slum Upgrading Process: The Case of Parque Fernanda I, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Villa 31: Regeneration as a Consequence of Social Urbanism
  • El Amate in Guatemala City: An Urban Intervention
  • Cuba's Informal Gardens: Situating State Support and Public Participation
  • Urban Permeability in Medellín: Case Studies of Santo Domingo Savio and El Poblado
  • Hopeful Rebar: Speculating on Urban Informality in Mexico City
  • Part III. 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 Rio Bravo
  • Stigmas of Informality: Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction in the South Texas Colonias
  • Quasi-Informality on the Border: The Economic and Socio-Spatial Dimensions of Latino Vendor Markets
  • Houston, Informal City
  • Tanks, Wells, Tacos, and Pitches
  • Understanding Informal Housing in the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Latin American Informal Settlements
  • PartIV. 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 the Layers of Socio-Spatial Connectivity
  • Carnival Nonmovements and the Repoliticization of Urban Space in Yazd, Iran
  • Pop-up Cities: Refugee Camps between Transience and Resilience
  • Leveraging Rural Urbanisms: Design at the Intersection of Formality andInformality in Xixinan, China
  • Part V 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
  • Toward 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: MiquelAdrià.

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