Kim Dovey, Matthijs van Oostrum, Tanzil Shafique, Ishita Chatterjee, Elek Pafka

Atlas of Informal Settlement (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development.

The Atlas of Informal Settlement is a comparative study of the spatial logic of informal settlement based on mapping and analysing the evolution of urban form (morphogenesis) in 51 contemporary settlements across the planet - the first of its kind and a fundamental change in thinking for urban studies and built environment professionals.

Each of the 51 case studies uses maps and aerial photographs to examine key stages of development, showing how informal settlement adapts to different contexts of political economy, topography, culture, climate and land tenure; revealing a complex range of actors from settlers and states to land mafias and pirate developers. It demonstrates the range of design processes and formal outcomes; how the informal becomes formalized and vice versa. Interspersed with short chapters introducing key theoretical concepts, the Atlas shows how such practices may or may not produce 'slums', and how settlement is already a form of 'upgrading'.

Informal settlement is the primary mode of production of affordable housing and neighbourhood infrastructure within cities of the Global South; with detailed mapping and profiling of 51 settlements this book shows how such urban morphologies emerge in terms of architecture, urban design and planning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350295063
• Artikelnr.: 68874296

Autorenporträt

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of authors Acknowledgements Part A INTRODUCTION:
Informal Settlement as a Verb Part B METHOD: Mapping Informal Assemblages
Part C SETTLEMENT Part D MORPHOGENESIS: The Spatial Logic of Self-Organized
Urban Design Part E REFERENCES Glossary Index