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

Atlas of Informal Settlement

Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350295049
• ISBN-10: 1350295043
• Artikelnr.: 67655858

Autorenporträt

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. Matthijs van Oostrum currently works with UN-Habitat, Nairobi. Tanzil Shafique is Lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Sheffield. Ishita Chatterjee is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, O.P. Jindal Global University. Elek Pafka is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Melbourne. The authors are all associated with InfUr- the Informal Urbanism Research Hub 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