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Bringing together case studies, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and 'informal' enclaves in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges the thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility, and placemaking.
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Introduction. Section 1: The emergence of 'global south spaces' in the north. 1.Diasporic Urbanism. 2.Temporary Sheltering, Empowering Design, and The Jungle: A Case for Architects. 3.Wireless borders: illegal bodies and connected futures. 4.Connecting the Camps: Spatialising the ECHO Mobile Library in Greece. 5.Digital and physical spaces in informal settlements: Migrants, Refugee Camps, and Mapping. Section 2: Seeking Refuge in Global South Camps. 6.Accommodating Informality in the Spatial Planning of the Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement, Kenya. 7.Understanding the Everyday Movements of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda. 8.The Ephemeral as an instrument of Urban Design and Planning. Section 3: Informal responses of the Informal Settlements in the Global South. 9.The Invisible beyond Visible: The Perils of Urban Regeneration in Colombo's Slave Island. 10.A Note on the Door: Symbolic Erasure and Representational Resistance in Rio de Janeiro. 11.Organic Urban Regeneration: An Inclusive Urban Design for Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Residential Neighborhoods of Ningbo, China. 12.Towards a 'hybrid' governance approach: The way out of the urban development crisis in Lagos, Nigeria? A critical assessment with Makoko as a case study. 13.Embracing in[formal]ity: An exploration of grounded architectural practice in Cape Town. 14.The Why? How? What? and What-ifs of mass slum rehabilitation housing in India. CODA 15.The Pandemic and Informal settlements. Index.
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Gihan Karunaratne is a Sri Lankan-born British architect and studied at Royal College of Arts and Bartlett School of Architecture.
He has taught and lectured in Architecture, Urban Design and Interior Design in the UK, Sri Lanka and China. He writes and researches extensively on art, architecture and urban design.
Gihan’s current research interests are in architecture and urban conditions within cities which are undergoing constant physical, economic or social changes in patterns of urban living.
In many of his projects he has researched and explored the underbelly of the city in detail, specifically focussing on non-conformist marginalized communities. From urban transition courses and temporality in the Global South, he remains actively engaged in urban research with focus on informal settlements and communities.
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Bringing together case studies, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and ‘informal’ enclaves in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges the thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility, and placemaking.
