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This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how diverse social and spatial behaviours within informal urban environments, particularly in developing countries, can provide fresh insights for robust urban planning and development. It positions informality as a dialogue for enabling resilience.
List of contents
1: Informality, Resilience and Dialogue - Towards an Alternative Southern Framework
Part 1: North-South Relations 2: A Marginalised Spatial Structure in Melbourne's Public Housing Estates: Evaluating Public Spaces, Infrastructure, and Citizen Participation 3: Accessing the City via Informal Urbanism: Kampungs, Multiculturalism and Kebabs 4: Reporting from the front: How socio-economic non-conformities revolutionise architecture as a political act 5: Re-conceptualising the relationship between informalities, livelihoods and governance towards urban resilience
Part 2: Grassroots 6: "Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste" - Lessons on dialogical transformations of public agency and space 7: Havana's informal settlements - strengthening resilience through grassroots infrastructures8: Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires metropolitan region. the case of Guernica land reappropriation
Part 3: Institutional Strategies & Professional Alliances 9: Resilience to colonial modernity: shaping slum rehabilitations in Pune, India 10: Urban Informality in the Making: Public Actors' Spatial Strategies in Gimpo, South Korea11: Architecture of engagement: site, action and possibilities for reinvention 12: Revisiting social resilience in informal settlements: The strength and the limits of Paraisópolis community action during the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo. 13: Conceptual Implications - An Emerging 'Urban Informality Dialogical Framework'?
About the author
Lakshmi Priya Rajendran is Associate Professor in Environmental and Spatial Equity, Bartlett School of Architecture, The Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London (UCL), UK.
Nezhapi-Dellé Odeleye is Faculty Director of Research Students at the School of Engineering and Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University(ARU), Chelmsford, UK.
Ay¿egül Can is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Regional Studies , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany.
