Informality through Sustainability

Urban Informality Now
Herausgeber: Melis, Alessandro; Lehmann, Steffen; Di Raimo, Antonino

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. It will be of great benefit to planners, architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the interplay between informality and sustainability.

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Produktdetails

• Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1900
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 252mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1028g
• ISBN-13: 9780367354770
• ISBN-10: 0367354772
• Artikelnr.: 60353016

Autorenporträt

Antonino Di Raimo, FEA, is a Reader in Architecture at the University of Portsmouth's School of Architecture (UK), where he is also a Co-Lead in research. He joined the University of Portsmouth in 2017. Prior to this, he had been teaching in Italy (University of La Sapienza) and Albania (Polis University, Tirana). Steffen Lehmann, Assoc. AIA, RIBA, AoU, is Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (USA), and a full Professor of Architecture. He is also Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Urban Futures Lab and Director of the Future Cities Leadership Institute. Alessandro Melis, RIBA, ARB, AoU, is a full Professor of Architecture Innovation at the University of Portsmouth (UK) and the co-director of the Cluster for Sustainable Cities. He is the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Biennale of Architecture in Venice 2020-21.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface David Turnbull Introduction Antonino Di Raimo, Steffen Lehmann and
Alessandro Melis Part 1 Part 1. Introduction - What does Informality have
to say to Architecture?: Decolonising the Enquire and the Enquirer
Antonino Di Raimo 1. Visualizing the Political: Teddy Cruz and Fonna
Forman, in conversation with Kathy Waghorn Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, in
conversation with Kathy Waghorn 2. From a Marxist Arcadia to High-tech
Favelas: The Latency of Informality in Archizoom and Andrea Branzi Pablo
Martínez Capdevila 3. "I'm an imposter" [a Gödel-Cassandra incompleteness]
François Roche - New-Territories 4. Informality and Dissent: The Culture of
Self-sufficiency of the American Rural Poor David Franco Santa Cruz 5. The
Urbanism of Individual Arrangements: Understanding Specific Realities - The
Case of Tirana Sotir Dhamo 6. Informality and Temporary Appropriation in
Atlanta as a Prototype for Resilient Communities William Carpenter 7.
Effected Butterflies: Informal Urban Migration of Monarchs and Humans
Across the US-Mexico Border Mitchell Joachim and Nicholas Gervasi 8.
Informality and Commons Simone Sfriso, Massimo Lepore, Raul Pantaleo,
Barbora Foerster Part 2 Part 2. Introduction - Informality as a Mode of
Sustainability Steffen Lehmann 9. The Self-Organising City and Its Modus
Operandi: Informal Urbanism and Public Space Steffen Lehmann 10. Housing
the Majority, Destroying Agrarian Land: The Irreconcilable Dilemma of
Cairo's Informal areas Charlotte Malterre-Barthes 11. Informality and Mass
Housing in Seoul: The Role of Informal Settlements in the Formation of
Megaprojects Dario Pedrabissi 12. The Role of Adaptation in Changing the
Micro-Morphology of Informal Settlements Paul Jones 13. Urban (in)formality
and the New Unsustainable Landscape of the Global South: Case Study of
Megacity Dhaka Mohammad S,H, Swapan, Atiq Zaman and Steffen Lehmann 14.
Landscape - Infrastructure: Formal - informal Entanglements across
Political Ecologies of Resource Use Daniela Perrotti 15. 'AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO
NOS VAMOS': Contested Ground, Sustainable Informal Settlement and Human
Consequence in the Urban Landscape of South Los Angeles Danny H. Ortega
16. The Hill and the Asphalt: a 50-year Perspective on Informality in Rio
de Janeiro Janice Perlman Part 3 Part 3. Introduction - Informal Behavior
as a Form of Community Resilience Alessandro Melis 17. Informal
Microclimates: Study on Self-Built Settlements and Human Comfort in Amman
Ata Chokhachian, Daniele Santucci, Thomas Auer 18. Urban Form of Informal
Settlements in the Western Balkans Dorina Pojani 19. Understanding
Temporary Appropriation and the Streetscape Design: The case of Algiers,
Auckland and Mexico City J. Antonio Lara- Hernandez, M. Yazid Khemri and
Alessandro Melis 20. Reinventing City Planning in a Context that "Hates"
Planning!: A New Role for Architects, City Planners, and Institutions
Besnik Aliaj 21. Roman Lessons: What if Informality was not a bug to be
Corrected but a Bacterium Capable of Reactivating a Dormant Urban
Metabolism? Alessandra Lai and Francesco Careri 22. Informality in
Formality: The Case of a Neighbourhood in a Nigerian City Olufunto, Ayoola,
Melis 23. Achieving Community Resilience through Informal Urban Practices:
The Case of El Houma in Algiers Yazid Khemri and Alessandro Melis 24.
Learning Place Attachment from the Informal City Cristina Dreifuss 25.
Designing the "Off-Grid" City: Empowering the Transactions of
Infrastructure Aseem Inam Index