Rethinking the informal city : critical perspectives from Latin America / / edited by Felipe Hernandez, Peter Kellett and Lea K. Allen

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76098
• Soggetto topico: Sociology, Urban - Latin America; Cities and towns - Latin America; Architecture and society - Latin America
• Altri autori: HernandezFelipe <1971-> KellettPeter (Peter William) AllenLea K
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page-Rethinking the Informal City; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter 1-Introduction: Reimagining the Informal in Latin America; Part I-Critical Perspectives; Chapter 2-The Form of the Informal: Investigating Brazilian Self-Built Housing Solutions; Chapter 3-Informal Practices in the Formal City: Housing, Disagreement and Recognition in Downtown Sao Paulo; Chapter 4-The Informal Architecture of Brasilia: An Analysis of the Contemporary Urban Role of its Satellite Settlements ; Chapter 5-The Evolution of Informal Settlements in Chile: Improving Housing Conditions in CitiesChapter 6-Housing for the Poor in the City Centre: A Review of the Chilean Experience and a Challenge for Incrememtal Design; Part II-Critical Practices; Chapter 7-Rules of Engagement: Caracas and the Informal City; Chapter 8-Integrated Informality in the Barrios of Havana; Chapter 9-Formal-Informal Connections in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: The Favela-Bairro Programme; Chapter 10-Spatial Strategies and Urban Social Policy: Urbanism and Poverty Reduction in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro ; Chapter 11-Urban and Social Articulation: Megacities, Exclusion and UrbanityChapter 12-Public-City in Manifesto: The Formal City In-Formed by Public Interest; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, despite intrinsic semantic implications, the terms formal and informal do not refer only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Given the fact that informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity expected to be found in the formal city, the wide-ranging essays in this volume from disciplinary areas such as anthropology, architecture, history, cultural and ur
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking the informal city
• ISBN: 0-85745-608-3; 1-282-62819-4; 9786612628191; 1-84545-972-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826081003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Remapping cultural history ; ; v. 11.