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

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (647 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Sociology, Urban
• Persona (resp. second.): MarinicGregory; MeninatoPablo
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Conclusion -- 7 Informalizing Yugoslavia -- Unraveling and Recomposing -- Informal Conditions -- Squatter Settlements -- Appropriated Buildings -- Refugee Camps -- Romani Encampments -- Illegal Suburbs -- Conclusion -- 8 Micro-Informalities: Spatial Appropriations in the COVID-19 Era -- The Exterior/Interior -- New York Restaurant Micro-Informalities: Context and Criteria -- Coda: Social Distancing -- Micro-informalities as Spatial Appropriations -- Psychological -- Atmospheric -- Form -- Program -- Case Study: Rockwell Group|The DineOut Tool Kit -- Postscript -- Part II Latin America -- 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 -- Conclusions: What Have We Learned from Parque Fernanda I? -- 14 Villa 31: Regeneration as a Consequence of Social Urbanism -- Barrio 31-Integration -- Barrio Padre Carlos Mugica-Regeneration -- A Renewed Relationship between the Waterfront and the City -- Conclusion -- 15 El Amate in Guatemala City: An Urban Intervention -- Informal retail in Urban Planning -- Guatemala and Guatemala City -- Local Context -- El Amate -- El Amate Studies -- Findings and Discussion -- "Improving Business" Performance -- Conclusion: Vendors as Citizens and Entrepreneurs -- 16 Cuba's Informal Gardens: Situating State Support and Public Participation -- Background -- The Commons -- Usufruct Lands -- Improvisation in Urban Spaces: Direct Action Urban Design -- Informal Food Production -- Design -- Opportunities and Limitations -- Cuban Futures. ; 17 Urban Permeability in Medellín: Case Studies of Santo Domingo Savio and El Poblado -- 18 Hopeful Rebar: Speculating on Urban Informality in Mexico City -- Hopeful Rebar -- The Informal Cities Field Studio -- Tierra Perdida | Brandon Kroger -- Degrees of Informality | Todd Funkhouser -- Paseo de las Estrellitas | DaMario Walker-Brown -- Constructing Community | Robert Peebles -- Reflecting on Informality -- Part III US-Mexico Borderlands -- 19 Lesson of Hope: A Case Study on Self-built Homes in the Informal Neighborhoods of Tijuana -- Border Urbanism -- The Architecture of Houses in Tijuana -- The Work of Fundación Esperanza de México -- Community Development Through Self-help Housing -- Self-building -- The Slow House -- The Future of FEM and Self-built Housing -- 20 Informality in South Texas: Understanding the Evolution of Colonias in El Cenizo and Rio Bravo -- Two Colonias Downriver from Laredo -- The Legacy of Cecil McDonald -- El Cenizo and Rio Bravo after Half-a-Century -- Lessons Learned? -- 21 Stigmas of Informality: Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction in the South Texas Colonias -- Examining the "Stigma of Informality" -- Case: Colonias of the Río Grande Valley -- Colonias After Hurricane Dolly -- Stigmas of Informality as Illegality in the Colonias -- Conclusion -- 22 Quasi-Informality on the Border: The Economic and Socio-Spatial Dimensions of Latino Vendor Markets -- Economic Dualism and Marketplaces -- Latino Vendor Markets on the Border -- Quasi-Informality within Latino Vendor Markets -- Economic -- Spatial -- Social -- Conclusion -- 23 Houston, Informal City -- A Brief History of Houston -- A Periphery in Transition -- Otherness and Heterotopias -- Finding Opportunity in Obsolescence -- Conditions of Informality -- Reflecting -- 24 Tanks, Wells, Tacos, and Pitches -- From the Outside -- Looking Inside. ; Fractured Infrastructure: Tanks and Wells -- Privatized Publics: Pitches and Markets -- Constructed Difference -- Conclusion -- 25 Understanding Informal Housing in the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Latin American Informal Settlements -- Housing Challenges in the Mississippi Delta -- Housing Typologies: Precarity and Informal Practices -- Lessons from Latin America: Incremental and Assisted Self-help Housing -- Conclusion -- Part IV Asia -- 26 Understanding "Free-form" Micro-morphology in Informal Settlements -- The Status of Research on Micro-morphology in Informal Settlements -- The Processes Determining Free-form Micro-morphology Patterns -- Increments: The Building Blocks of Micro-morphological Change -- Conclusion -- 27 Informality and the Production of Publicness in India -- Public Space and Publicness -- Informality: The Organizing Structure of Urbanization in India -- Intersection of Informality and Public Space -- Visible Informality and the Production of Publicness -- Participation -- Legitimacy -- Inclusion -- Recognition -- Belonging -- Conclusion -- 28 Desperate City Builders -- Moria Camp -- European Makeshift -- Tower of Babel -- Moria 2.0 -- 29 (In)formal Land Delivery Processes: Relational Perspectives on Squatter Settlements in Kathmandu -- Research Method -- Context -- Evolution of a Squatter Settlement in Kathmandu, Nepal -- Initial Access to Land (Legal) -- Securing the Legitimacy of Land (Legal) -- Securing the Legitimacy of Land (Physical and Social) -- Physical Consolidation -- Social Consolidation -- Conclusion -- 30 Meeting Unmet Expectations Revisited: Environmental Management in Indonesian Urban Kampungs after 30 Years -- Informality in Urban Settlements: Society-State Interactions -- Urban Sustainability: Human-Environmental Interactions -- Linking Informality and Sustainability for Problem-Solving. ; Informal Solutions to Urban Environmental Concerns in Jakarta Over 30 Years -- Conclusion -- 31 Urban Informality Tactics Through the Layers of Socio-Spatial Connectivity -- Layers of Informality in Urban Everyday Space -- Emerging Layers of Spatial Connectivity in an Urban Neighborhood -- Appropriation of the Formal Spatial Structure -- Spatial Connectivity as the Key Tactics of Informality -- Overlapping Layers as Informality Tactics -- 32 Carnival Nonmovements and the Repoliticization of Urban Space in Yazd, Iran -- Spatial-Carnivalesque Agency -- Informal Resistance -- Spatial Encroachments -- Conclusion -- 33 Pop-up Cities: Refugee Camps between Transience and Resilience -- Introduction -- The Camp as a Social City -- Camp-Cities, Networks for Collective Identity -- The Refugee City and the Bid for a Translocality -- Learning from Al Zaatari: A Case Study of the Camp-City -- Refugee Cities between Hospitality, Agency, and Belonging -- Pop-Up Cities and the Subsistence of the Societal Collective -- The Cyclicality of Urban Growth and Decay -- Conclusion -- 34 Leveraging Rural Urbanisms: Design at the Intersection of Formality and Informality in Xixinan, China -- Intersectional (in)Formalities -- Village Acupunctures: Designing Rural Village Acupunctures in Xiaoxian Anhui Province, China -- Architectural and Urban Design and Studio, Summer 2015 -- Village Acupunctures Xixinan, Anhui Province -- Summer 2015 Design Studio -- Mapping Methodology(ies) and Site Reconnaissance -- Village Field Research -- Design as Village Acupunctures -- Bridge(ing) -- Platform(ing) Water Village Urbanisms -- Adaptive Reuse -- Occupying Interstitial Space -- Village Demonstration Kitchen -- Conclusion -- Part V Africa -- 35 Towards Sustainable Interventions in Unplanned Communities: Adapting the Urban Nexus approach to the Greater Cairo Region. ; Urban Informality-What it is and What it Represents.
• Titolo autorizzato: Informality and the City
• ISBN: 3-030-99926-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910616392203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II