The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rocco, Roberto; Ballegooijen, Jan van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization investigates the mutual relationship between the struggle for political inclusion and processes of informal urbanisation in different socio-political and cultural settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317292326
• Artikelnr.: 54934718

Autorenporträt

Roberto Rocco is a senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Urbanism of the Delft University of Technology. He has got a degree in Architecture and Planning from the University of São Paulo and a post-graduate MSc degree in Spatial Planning from the same university. He worked as an independent researcher for NGOs in Brazil before being awarded a PhD by TU Delft in 2008, with a thesis on 'new urban geographies of globalization'. He has published on issues of governance, sustainability, and spatial justice and currently focuses on challenges of urbanization in the Global South and the implementation and governance of the New Urban Agenda. Jan van Ballegooijen is an independent researcher and practicing architect. He received an MSc degree at Delft University of Technology in 2011, with a project focusing on the relationships between democratization and urban informality in São Paulo's periphery. At TU Delft, he has also worked as a research assistant for the chair 'Design as Politics', investigating the tensions between politics and urban design. Besides his current work as an independent researcher, he is also a practicing architect in the Netherlands and Belgium. He is currently expanding his research on the relationship between urban informality and democracy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction and Acknowledgments Chapter 2. The political
Meaning of Informal Urbanisation Chapter 3. AHMEDABAD. Urban Informality
and the Production of Exclusion Chapter 4. ANKARA. Struggles for Housing:
Legitimate, Self-Contradictory or Both? Impacts of Clientelism and
Rights-Seeking on Informal Housing in Ankara Chapter 5. BALKANS. Informal
settlements in the Balkans: Squatters' magic realism vs. planners'
modernist fantasy vs. governments' tolerance and opportunism Chapter 6.
BEIRUT. Dahiye: An Active Space for Social Justice and Resistance:
Re-imagining Informality in Light of Growing Urban Marginality Chapter 7.
BELO HORIZONTE. New urban occupations in the metropolitan area of Belo
Horizonte and the struggle for housing rights Chapter 8. CAIRO. Right to
the City and Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Cairo Chapter 9.
FORTALEZA. Informal urbanization versus modernization: popular resistance
in Fortaleza, Brazil Chapter 10. GUANGZHOU. Fewer contestations, more
negotiations : A multi-scalar understanding of the 'politics of informal
urbanization' in southern China CHAPTER 11. GUAYAQUIL. Conflicting
competences in Guayaquil's contested and (in)formal periphery CHAPTER 12.
HANOI. A study of informally developed housing and its role in the
political arena of a post-reform communist city CHAPTER 13. HARARE.
Informality and Urban Citizenship: Housing Struggles in Harare, Zimbabwe
CHAPTER 14. JERUSALEM. The multifaceted politics of informality in
Jerusalem at the time of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict CHAPTER 15.
JOHANNESBURG. The Political Ecology of the Right to the Rainbow City
Informal spaces and practices and the quest for socio-environmental rights
in urbanizing Johannesburg CHAPTER 16. KHARTOUM. The Politics of
Displacement in a Conflictive Polity CHAPTER 17. LIMA. Lima: Informal
Urbanization and the State: The Rise and Fall of Urban Populism in Lima
CHAPTER 18. MASHHAD. Claiming the right to the city: Informal urbanisation
in the holy city of Mashhad CHAPTER 19. MEDELLIN. Performative
infrastructures: Medellin's governmental technologies of informality. The
case of the Encircled Garden Project in Comuna 8 CHAPTER 20. MUMBAI. Profit
versus People: The Struggle for Inclusion in Mumbai CHAPTER 21. NAIROBI.
The Socio-Political Implications of Informal Tenement Housing in Nairobi,
Kenya CHAPTER 22. PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti's Disaster Urbanism: The Emerging
City of Canaan CHAPTER 23. RIO DE JANEIRO. Tackling Informality in
Low-Income Housing: The Case of the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro
CHAPTER 24. SÃO PAULO. Cortiços: Interstitial Urbanization in Central São
Paulo 25. SÃO PAULO. Occupations: A pedagogy of confrontation: Informal
building occupations in São Paulo's central neighbourhoods CHAPTER 26.
SEOUL. The evolution of informal settlers' political gains in changing
state regimes in Seoul CHAPTER 27. YOGYAKARTA. Slum dwellers strategies and
tactics in Yogyakarta, Indonesia